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Javanese

Яванцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
95,217,022
Indonesia, census 2010 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
95,288,901
sum of censuses in 2 countries, 2004-2010
Austronesian
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Indonesia: 95,217,022 people in the 2010 census.

Official figures exist for 2 countries; together they add up to 95,288,901. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2004-2010) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

Main language: Javanese. Glottolog classifies it in the Austronesian family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Indonesia2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jawa» · [1]
95,217,022
Suriname2004 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Javanese» · [2]
71,879
Sum across 2 countries95,288,901

Languages and their lineage

Javanese

  1. Austronesianaust1307
  2. Malayo-Polynesianmala1545
  3. Javanesicjava1253
  4. Modern Javanesemode1251
  5. Global Javaneseglob1245
  6. Javanesejava1254

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

SundaneseTagalog (Filipinos)MalaysBanjarBetawi peopleMinangkabauChamsChamorro peopleSamoansCarolinian people

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Indonesia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Suriname, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)