Javanese leid

Javanese
	ꦧꦱꦗꦮ (Basa Jawa)
Native tae	Java (Indonesie),; Suriname, New Caledon
Ethnicity	Javanese, Osing, Tenggerese
Native speakers	100 million (2011)
Leid faimily	Austronesian Sunda–Sulawesi Javanese; ;
Early form	Old Javanese
Writin seestem	Javanese alphabet (optional); Pegon alphabet (releegious use); Latin (general)
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	jv
ISO 639-2	jav
ISO 639-3	Variously:; jav – Javanese; jvn – Caribbean Javanese; jas – New Caledonian Javanese; osi – Osing; tes – Tenggerese; kaw – Old Javanese
	Dark green: auries whaur Javanese; is the majority leid. Licht green:; whaur it is a minority leid.

"Bahasa Jawi" redirects here. For the Malay dialect spoken in Pattani, Thailand, see Pattani Malay.

Javanese /dʒɑːvəˈniːz/^[2] (Javanese: ꦧꦱꦗꦮ basa Jawa; Indonesie: bahasa Jawa) is the leid o the Javanese fowk frae the central an eastren pairts o the island o Java, in Indonesie. Thare are an aa pockets o Javanese speakers in the northren coast o wastren Java. It is the native leid o mair nor 100,000,000 fowk (mair nor 43% o tot population in Indonesie).

Javanese is pairt o the Austronesian faimily. Maist speakers o Javanese an aa speak Indonesie: for offeecial an commercial purposes, an tae communicate wi non-Javanese Indonesies.

Thare are speakers o Javanese in Malaysie (concentratit in the states o Selangor an Johor) an Singapore. Some fowk o Javanese strynd in Suriname (the Dutch colony o Suriname till 1975) speak a creole descendant o the leid.

References

↑ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh

Freemit airtins

[1] Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007

[2] Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh

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