Acehnese to Madurese Translator

Spoken mainly on Madura Island and parts of eastern Java, Indonesia.

Uses the Latin script in modern contexts; Arabic script (Pegon) was used historically.

Non-tonal; includes glottal stops and retroflex consonants; aspirated and unaspirated stops are contrastive.

SVO word order; agglutinative morphology; politeness levels affect verb forms and vocabulary.

Includes loanwords from Javanese, Arabic, Sanskrit, Dutch, and Indonesian.

Austronesian family, Malayo-Polynesian branch.

Latin script; Pegon (Arabic-derived) script used in religious texts.

Shifted from Pegon to Latin during colonial and post-colonial periods.

Approximately 7 to 13 million speakers.

Acehnese is primarily spoken in the Aceh province of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is also spoken by diaspora communities in Malaysia and other parts of Indonesia.

Uses both the Latin and Arabic-based Jawi scripts. The Latin alphabet consists of 26 letters, while the Jawi script is an adaptation of Arabic with additional letters to represent Acehnese sounds.

Acehnese has a complex phonological system, including glottalized and aspirated consonants. It also features a range of vowel contrasts, including nasalization.

Follows a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) word order. Acehnese uses prefixes, infixes, and suffixes to indicate tense, aspect, and mood. It also employs clitics for pronoun attachment.

Includes loanwords from Arabic, Malay, Sanskrit, Dutch, and English due to historical trade, colonization, and religious influence.

Part of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.

Uses both the Latin and Jawi scripts, though Latin script is more widely used today.

Acehnese was historically written in Jawi (Arabic script), but Latin script became dominant during Dutch colonization and remains the primary script for literacy and education.

Approximately 3.5 million speakers, primarily in Indonesia.