Javanese
Basa Jawa
Austronesian · Indonesia
Endangerment: Safe — Spoken by all generations and learned naturally by children.
Sugeng pepanggihan, kula bingah sanget saged kepanggih kaliyan panjenengan.
The North Wind and the Sun
Angin lor lan srengenge lagi padha padu, sapa sing luwih kuwat. Nalika iku ana wong lelungan nganggo jas anget sing lagi mlaku ing dalan. Kekarone padha sarujuk, sapa sing luwih dhisik bisa gawe wong lelungan iku nyopot jase, ya kuwi sing dianggep luwih kuwat. Angin lor nyebul sakkuwat-kuwate, nanging saya banter angine nyebul, wong lelungan iku saya kenceng anggone nyekeli jase. Pungkasane angin lor nyerah. Saiki genti srengenge sing sumunar anget, lan wong lelungan iku langsung nyopot jase. Mula angin lor kepeksa ngakoni yen srengenge luwih kuwat tinimbang dheweke.
- It has more native speakers than any other language in Indonesia, mostly on the island of Java.
- It has speech levels: casual 'ngoko' and polite 'krama' use different words. 'House' is 'omah' in ngoko and 'griya' in krama, a bit like Korean '밥' and '진지' (plain and honorific 'meal').
- Verbs don't change for tense. Instead, words like 'wis' (already) show when something happened.
- It has its own traditional script, Aksara Jawa (also called Hanacaraka), but today the Latin alphabet is used most.