Javanese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, Indonesia. There are also pockets of Javanese speakers on the northern coast of western Java. It … See more

Javanese is spoken throughout Indonesia, neighboring Southeast Asian countries, the Netherlands, Suriname, New Caledonia, and other countries. The largest populations of … See more

Morphology
Javanese, like many other Austronesian languages, is an agglutinative language, where base… See more

Javanese is part of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, although its precise relationship to other Malayo … See more

In general, the history of the Javanese language can be divided into two distinct phases: 1) Old Javanese and… See more

The phonemes of Modern Standard Javanese as shown below.
Vowels
In closed syllables the vowels /i u e o/ are pronounced [ɪ ʊ ɛ … See more

Javanese has many loanwords supplementing those from the native Austronesian base. Sanskrit has had a deep and lasting impact. The Old Javanese–English Dictionary contains approximately 25,500 entries, over 12,600 of which are … See more