Javanese leid

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

Javanese
ꦧꦱꦗꦮ (Basa Jawa)
Native tae	Java (Indonesie), Suriname, New Caledon
Ethnicity	Javanese, Osing, Tenggerese
Native speakers	100 million (2011)[1]
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.

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.

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