Javanese is the language of the largest ethnic group of Indonesia with around 75 million speakers. It is mainly spoken in Central and East Java, as well as in northern coastal areas. Outside Java, many Javanese speakers are found in transmigration...

Santri (Malay from Tamil, "trainee religious scholar") is a term popularized by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz to describe orthodox Javanese Muslims in contrast with the heterodox abangan. The distinguishing feature of santri was...

Largest Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in central and eastern Java (approx. 66 million speakers). Javanese has a highly developed hierarchy of stylistic levels (honorific, derogatory, etc.). Written attestations since approx. AD 750 in an alphabet...

Javanese may refer to: Javanese people Javanese language Javanese (cat), a breed of domestic cat Javanese...

The somewhat misnamed breathy voiced vowels of Javanese have been retermed "slack voiced" by Ladefoged and Maddieson (1996). This paper extends the analysis of Javanese vowels to a wider range of vowels, describes in precise detail what the acoustic characteristics of Javanese slack...

Stuart Robson (ed.). The Kraton: Selected Essays on Javanese Courts. Translation Series Koningklijk Institut Voor Taal-, Land-, En Volkenkunde 28, Leiden: KITLV Press. 2003. Pp.397, bibliog., illustrs., index. US$33.00 (Pb.), ISBN 9-06718-131-5. Important works of Dutch colonial scholarship about Indonesia have been translated...