Javanic languages

Javanese
ꦧꦱꦗꦮ Basa Jawa
Basa (language) written in the Javanese script
Pronunciation	[bɔsɔ dʒɔwɔ]
Native to	Java (Indonesia)
Ethnicity	Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, Javanese Surinamese, etc)
Native speakers	94 million (2013)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Nuclear MP Sunda–Sulawesi Old Javanese Kawi Javanese
Early forms	Old Javanese Classical Javanese Middle Javanese
Standard forms	Kawi (Early standard form) Surakartan Javanese (Modern standard form)
Dialects	Javanese dialects
Writing system	Latin script Javanese script Pegon alphabet
Official status
Recognised minority language in	West Java Banten Jakarta Malaysia Suriname Netherlands New Caledonia
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`jv`
ISO 639-2	`jav`
ISO 639-3	Variously: – Javanese – Caribbean Javanese – New Caledonian Javanese – Osing – Tenggerese – Kawi
Glottolog	`java1253`
Linguasphere	`31-MFM-a`
Dark green: areas where Javanese is the majority language. Light green: where it is a minority language.
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Javanese /dʒɑːvəˈniːz/ (ꦧꦱꦗꦮ, basa Jawa; Javanese pronunciation: [bɔsɔ dʒɔwɔ]) (colloquially known as ꦕꦫꦗꦮ, cara Jawa; Javanese pronunciation: [tjɔrɔ dʒɔwɔ]) is the language of the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia. There are also pockets of Javanese speakers in the northern coast of western Java. It is the native language of more than 98 million people (more than 42% of the total population of Indonesia).

Javanese is one of the Austronesian languages, but it is not particularly close to other languages and is difficult to classify. Its closest relatives are the neighbouring languages such as Sundanese, Madurese and Balinese. Most speakers of Javanese also speak Indonesian, the standardized form of Malay spoken in Indonesia, 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 states of Selangor and Johor) and Singapore. Some people of Javanese descent in Suriname (the Dutch colony of Suriname until 1975) speak a creole descendant of the language.

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