The Javanese language, which has 84.3 million speakers, is spoken in the most popular island on Earth, Java, which is home to almost two-thirds of the entire population of Indonesia. Moreover, more than 1/2 ( half ) of its 139 million inhabitants speak the local language, or enough to earn a spot just outside of the global top 10 here.
Some "loanwords" of English include batik ( year 1880 ), gamelon ( year 1816 ), and lahar , a volcanic mudflow ( year 1929 ) are part of the Javanese origin.
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