Javanese language

Javanese
Javanese
båså Jåwå; ꦧꦱꦗꦮ; بَاسَا جَاوَا
	Basa Jawa (Javanese language) written in the Javanese script
Pronunciation	[bɔsɔ d͡ʒɔwɔ]
Native to	Indonesia
Ethnicity	Javanese; • Samin; • Banyumasan; • Tenggerese; • Cirebonese; • Osing;
Native speakers	82 million (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Javanese; ;
Early forms	Old Javanese Middle Javanese ;
Standard forms	Kawi; (Early standard form); Surakartan Javanese; (Modern standard form);
Dialects	Javanese dialects
Writing system	Latin script; Javanese script; Pegon script
Official status
Official language in	Indonesia Special Region of Yogyakarta (co-official with Indonesian);
Regulated by	Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Language 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 – Kawi
Glottolog	java1253 Javanesic; java1254
Linguasphere	31-MFM-a
	Dark green: areas where Javanese is the majority language. Light green: where it is a minority language.

Javanese (/ˌdʒɑːvəˈniːz/ JAH-və-NEEZ, /dʒævə-/ JAV-ə-, /-ˈniːs/ -⁠NEESS; basa Jawa, Javanese script: ꦧꦱꦗꦮ, Pegon: بَاسَا جَاوَا, IPA: [bɔsɔ d͡ʒɔwɔ]) 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 is the native language of more than 98 million people.

Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers. It has several regional dialects and a number of clearly distinct status styles. Its closest relatives are the neighboring languages such as Sundanese, Madurese, and Balinese. Most speakers of Javanese also speak Indonesian for official and commercial purposes as well as a means to communicate with non-Javanese-speaking Indonesians.

There are speakers of Javanese in Malaysia (concentrated in the West Coast part of the states of Selangor and Johor) and Singapore. Javanese is also spoken by traditional immigrant communities of Javanese descent in Suriname, Sri Lanka and New Caledonia.

Along with Indonesian, Javanese is an official language in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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