Cahyo understands that many people still speak Javanese ... the former means kitten while the latter means black. Read also: Against all odds, Javanese-language film ‘Yowis Ben’ attracts ...

But Javanese dominate, with 95m people, or 40% of the population. There is much that is distinctive about Javanese culture, from shadow-puppet plays to tempeh, a fermented soyabean cake.

As a Kejawen practitioner, he would recite Islamic phrases but did so mostly in Javanese. Many people in Wonogiri viewed Daryatmo as a man who had mastered arcane disciplines to establish a ...

It makes them become less inclined to keep using their mother languages. Over 80 million people speak Javanese language. It has three speech levels: low, middle and high. The successful ...