JAVANESE LANGUAGE

            JAVANESE LANGUAGE

Javanese  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 on 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 Malayspoken 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 and Singapore. Some people of Javanese descent in Suriname  speak a creole descendant of the language.

The language is spoken in yogyakarta , central , east java and , as well as on the north coast of west java . It is also spoken elsewhere by the Javanese people in other provinces of Indonesia, which are numerous due to the government-sanctioned transmigration program in the late 20th century, including Lampung , Jambi, and North Sumatra provinces.

                                     

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                                                                               M.Vishali