Can Malaysians Understand Javanese (The largest Austronesian language by the number of native speakers)? How similar are they and what is the difference between them?

In this video Sutan, from Indonesia, will read a few sentences in Javanese, and Kamilah, Faizal, and Rauf, from Malaysia, will see how well they can undertand.

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Javanese (ꦧꦱꦗꦮ / Basa Jawa / باسا جاوا) is the largest language in the world without official status. As the language of the Javanese people from the Indonesian island of Java, it is the native language of around 100 million people. The closest relatives of Javanese are the neighbouring languages in Indonesia such as Sundanese and Balinese.

Malay is an Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore and also used in some parts of the Philippines as a trading language. Prior to the arrival of Islam in Southeast Asia, the Pallava, Nagari, and old Sumatran scripts were used in writing the Malay language. As their rulers converted to Islam, and the religion began to spread across the region, a modified form of the Arabic script (Jawi) was formed. The arrival of the Europeans brought the Latin script, and in recent times, the Latin-derived Rumi alphabet has become the most commonly used for both official and informal purposes.