Java language used monosyllabic Javanese population in Central Java, Yogyakarta and East Java. In addition, the Java language is also used by people living in some other areas such as Banten (especially Serang, Cilegon, and Tangerang) and West Java (especially the northern coastal region which includes Karawang, Subang, Indramayu and Cirebon).From time to time, a lot of people who want to learn the Java language. Indonesia not only residents, but also residents of foreign countries. So the desire to translate other languages into the Java language emerged.
You definitely know google translate. one of the features provided by Google to transfer my one language translated into another language.Of all the languages of every tribe in Indonesia, only the Java language that is in the list of Google Transate from more than 746 the number of Indonesian regional languages. Inevitably, because of this, the Java language could eventually be translated into many languages coupled with Indonesian, the application that created the google. With this breakthrough, the Javanese culture more widely known by the world.
Based on estimates ethnologue.com, Javanese is ranked 11 in the world in terms of number of speakers, namely a row after: 1. Chinese language by number of speakers 1.21 billion people (most dominant Chinese with 845 million speakers); 2. Spanish (329 million); 3. English (328 million); 4. Arabic (221 million); 5. Hindi (182 million); 6. Bengali (181 million); 7. Portuguese (178 million); 8. Russian (144 million); 9. Japanese (122 million); 10. German (90.3 million); and 11. Java language (84.3 million). Number of speakers more than the Java language in Vietnamese, French, Korean and Turkish.Based on the Census of 2000 (ethnologue.com) the number of speakers of Javanese reached 84.3 million people, scattered in Central Java and East Java portion 69 million people, Cirebon (including Indramayu) of 2.5 million people, Banten 500 thousand people (spread over North Coast Serang and Tangerang). Also scattered in Papua, Sulawesi, Maluku, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Sabah, Singapore, even to the Netherlands, Suriname and New Caledonia. Actually, the Java language has spread across the districts and cities in Indonesia as well as dozens of countries in different continents. The existence of Java tribes even very dominant in some areas outside Java, such as in Lampung 62 percent, 33 percent of North Sumatra, South Sumatra and Jambi and 27 percent respectively. After the Java language, a language with the second largest number of speakers in Indonesia is Sundanese (Census 2000 there were 34 million people). Sundanese itself is ranked 31st largest language in the world, surpassed Farsi, Tagalog and Dutch.
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