Javanese
WALS coordinates: 7° S, 111° E
spoken in Indonesia
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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| Routledge: | |
| Other: | |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Average | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Large (7-14) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Moderately low | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Fixed Stress Locations | No fixed stress | |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress | Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate | |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | Prominence | |
| Rhythm Types | Undetermined | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Distributive Numerals | Marked by mixed or other strategies | |
| Numeral Classifiers | Optional | |
| Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers | Formally similar, with interrogative | |
| Nominal Syntax | ||
| Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses | Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed | |
| Adjectives without Nouns | Marked by preceding word | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | No grammatical marking | |
| The Past Tense | No past tense | |
| The Future Tense | No inflectional future | |
| The Perfect | From 'finish', 'already' | |
| Imperative-Hortative Systems | Neither type of system | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Comparative Constructions | Particle | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Tea | Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te | |
