About Javanese Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Javanese is the language of the Javanese people. It is spoken in the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia. There are also many Javanese speakers on the northern coast of western Java. Javanese is the native language of more than 98 million people. The language is spoken by 42% of the total population of Indonesia. Javanese has the largest number of native speakers in Indonesia. The language has several regional dialects and it has distinct status styles. Javanese has closest relations with Sundanese, Madurese, and Balinese. The speakers of Javanese also speak Indonesian for commercial purposes. They also use the language to communicate with non-Javanese-speaking Indonesians. Javanese is also spoken in Malaysia and Singapore. The language is also spoken by traditional immigrant communities who are of Javanese descent in Suriname, Sri Lanka, and New Caledonia.
About Maori Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Maori is the official language in the Cook Islands and New Zealand. The total number of Maori speakers is around 100,000 to 150,000. It has a distinctive nature as compared to other Polynesian languages. Maori contains five vowels and each one of them is either long or short. There are ten consonants in total that include h, k, m, n, ng, p, r, t, and w. You will rarely find any prefixes and suffixes while the nouns, verbs, and tenses are indicated with syntax. Traditionally Maori didn’t have a fixed writing system but it is now written in Latin script. The modern text of Maori features long and short vowels. A lot of older texts are based on long vowels and double letters.
