ISO 639-3 · javjav
Austronesian family · macrolanguage
Javanese
Basa Jawa
Javanese is a macrolanguage of the Malayo-Polynesian branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Wikidata counts 68.3 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Austronesian language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
jav- ISO 639-1
jv- Glottocode
glob1245- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 4 Educational
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- -7.00, 109.29
- Wikipedia
- 128 language editions
68.3 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
5scripts
2levels in the tree
4EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Javanese · Basa Jawa |
|---|---|
| Also called | Javanese language |
| L1 speakers | 68,300,000 (2019) |
| All speakers | 84,308,740 (2000) |
| Written in | Latin script, Pegon script, Kawi script, Javanese script, Formal Javanese Spelling |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
EGIDS 4 Educational4
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Javanese
The branches above Javanese, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Indonesia
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · DevelopingsunSundaneseAustronesian · 32.4 m5 · Developing