She learned Javanese to better communicate with her neighbors on the island.

The Javanese in our town organized a cultural festival to celebrate their traditional music and dance.

Scholars studying Southeast Asian epigraphy often encounter Old Javanese inscriptions that illuminate regional trade and religion.

We invited the neighbors to sample our Javanese dinner, where everyone builds a plate from rice, noodles, or chicken and chooses toppings from a buffet of spicy relishes and fried shallots.

At family reunions, my grandparents always prepared elaborate Javanese dinners that everyone eagerly anticipated.