Languages

Javanese

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Javanese." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/javanese.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Javanese. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/javanese

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-javanese,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Javanese},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/javanese},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Javanese is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, Indonesia, with pockets of speakers on the northern coast of western Java. It is the native language of more than 68 million people.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

jav 1

Speaker Count

68,000,000 1

2015 native-speaker figure from the article infobox; a looser estimate of about 100 million spoken or understood, without a stated year, is also given in the article and is not used here as the identifying key.

Region

Throughout Indonesia, mainly central and eastern Java; also Malaysia, Netherlands, Suriname and New Caledonia 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Austronesian

Source Wikipedia: Javanese Language

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Javanese Language

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Javanese is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, Indonesia. ... It is the native language of more than 68 million people.

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1. Wikipedia: Javanese Language

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