With close to one-hundred million speakers, Javanese is the largest language of the Austronesian family and one of the main regional languages of Indonesia.
Javanese speakers migrated to Malaysia mainly from 18.
Migrants have carried Javanese to other parts of Indonesia (Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi) and outside the country to Malaysia, New Caledonia and Suriname.
Javanese predominates in central and eastern Java as well as in a strip along the north coast of west Java (except around Jakarta.
With close to one-hundred million speakers, Javanese is the largest language of the Austronesian family and one of the main regional languages of Indonesia