Javanese Sentence Examples

The Balinese language belongs to the same group of the Malayan class as the Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, &c., but is as distinct from each of these as French is from Italian.

The natives of Bali, though of the same stock as the Javanese, and resembling them in general appearance, exceed them in stature and muscular power, as well as in activity and enterprise.

The alphabet is with some modifications the same as the Javanese, but more complicated.

Javanese influence is also traceable in the use of three varieties of speech, as in the Javanese language, according to the rank of the people addressed.

The sacred literature of the Balinese is written in the ancient Javanese or Kawi language, which appears to be better understood here than it is in Java.

Where Javanese is the principal language, Malay is sometimes found written with Javanese characters; and in Palembang, in the Menangkabo country of Middle Sumatra, the Rechang or Renchong characters are in general use, so called from the sharp and pointed knife with which they are cut on the smooth side of bamboo staves.

In September 1689 he reached Batavia; spent the following winter in studying Javanese natural history; and in May 1690 set out for Japan as physician to the embassy sent yearly to that country by the Dutch.

The most cultivated of the native tongues is the Javanese, and it is spoken by a greater number of people than any of the others.

Among the other languages which have been reduced to writing and grammatically analysed are the Balinese, closely connected with the Javanese, the Batta (with its dialect the Toba), the Dyak and the Macassarese.

The officers were all Dutch till 1908, when a trial was made of native officers from noble Javanese families.

In 1851 the government founded a medical school for Javanese, and in 1860 the "Gymnasium William III."

Here are found members of the different Indian nations, originally slaves; Arabs, who are principally engaged in navigation, but also trade in gold and precious stones; Javanese, who are cultivators; and Malays, chiefly boatmen and sailors, and adherents of Mahommedanism.

Batavia owes its origin to the Dutch governor-general Pieter Both, who in 1610 established a factory at Jacatra (which had been built on the ruins of the old Javanese town of Sunda Calappa), and to his successor, Jan Pieters Coen, who in 1619 founded in its stead the present city, which soon acquired a flourishing trade and increased in importance.

With these three main races have crossed traders and colonists, Macassars, Buginese, Javanese and Europeans.

The Sumatran rhinoceros differs from the Javanese in having two horns, like the African variety.

The same character is employed by their immediate neighbours to the south, the Pasumas, who bear traces of Javanese influence.

In the extreme south are the Lampong people, who claim descent from the Menangkabos, but have also an admixture of Javanese blood.

In Menangkabo, for instance, the Arabic alphabet displaced the Kavi (ancient Javanese) character previously employed.

It is said to have been attacked and devastated by the Javanese in 1252, and at the time when it passed by treaty to the East India Company in 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles persuading the sultan and tumenggong of Johor to cede it to him, it was wholly uninhabited save by a few fisherfolk living along its shores.

The perfume, which is extracted in the same way as in the two preceding species, is highly valued and much used by the Javanese.

The natives are Sundanese, except in the northern or Serang division, where they are Javanese.

It has adopted a certain number of vocables from Sanskrit, Malay, Javanese and Portuguese, but on the whole is remarkably pure, and has undergone comparatively few recent changes.

The typical civilized Indonesian peoples, Malays and Javanese, are variants of a Proto-Malay race with Indian, Arab and other foreign admixtures.

Small groups were given the chance to get up close to a Javanese gamelan.

Gamelan workshop The RCM has a specially commissioned Javanese gamelan workshop The RCM has a specially commissioned Javanese gamelan.

It is used to produce authentic Javanese music, which combines simple melodies with sometimes complex improvised ornamentation.

Parallel activities (for example on Javanese shadow puppets) can be arranged in the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Spice Route features a rare Javanese opium bed made from reclaimed teak with local carved wood panels.

The literary language has embodied many of its ingredients from the Old Javanese, as spoken in Java at the time of the fall of Majapahit (15th century), while the vulgar dialect has kept free from such admixture.

The natives consist of Middle Javanese in the north and Sundanese in the south.