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Javanese is the main language of the residents of central and eastern regions of Java, in Indonesia. Besides these regions, the northern coast of Western Java also has a concentration of Javanese speakers. The language is spoken by over 75 million native speakers. At Tomedes, we regularly work on Javanese translation projects for a variety of language pairs and domains. We work with professional Javanese translation experts who are variously qualified to provide legal translation, business translation, web site translation, medical translation etc.

• Javanese language belongs to the Austronesian family of languages and is related to the other Indonesian and Malay languages. In fact many Javanese speakers use Indonesian for official and commercial purposes and also in order to communicate with non-Javanese Indonesians.
  

• Javanese speakers are not limited only to Indonesia, substantial population of Javanese speakers are also present in neighboring countries like East Timor, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong Taiwan, and Australia. In Malaysia, they are especially concentrated in the states of Johore and Selangor. Javanese-speaking groups are also found in Suriname, New Caledonia, and the Netherlands. 
  

• Javanese belongs to the classical world languages having a vast history of rich literature that spans across 12 centuries.
  

• It is written using the Javanese script which has its roots in the Brahmi script, the Latin script, an adapted version of the Arabic script and Arabo-Javanese script.
  

• Though Javanese does not have recognition as an official language in any country it is has the largest number of native speakers among all Austronesian languages. Moreover nearly half of the Indonesian population are from a Javanese descent or reside in areas where the dominant language is Javanese. Consequently, Javanese has had a deep impact on the development of the Indonesian language which is the national language of Indonesia and a modern dialect of Malay.
  

• Javanese is spoken in three primary dialects; they are Central, Eastern and Western Javanese. Most of the Javanese dialects share reasonably good degrees of mutual intelligibility.
  

• Javanese is an agglutinative language and uses affixes extensively to modify base words.
  

• Javanese grammar prescribes a Subject-Verb-Object sequence. Old Javanese on the other hand, used Verb-Subject-Object order and even Verb-Order-Subject, due to which even now can find the usage of Verb-Subject-Object sequence in sentences.
  

The Javanese vocabulary is rich and has a substantial collection of foreign loan words along with its native Austronesian base. Sanskrit is one language which has played a deeply influential role in the development of the Javanese vocabulary. One can still find many Sanskrit words in use at present. Apart from Sanskrit, loan words from Malay, Arabic and Dutch are also used in Javanese.

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