Javanese in a sentence as a noun

You're right of course and I would have made the same point, but to play british advocate for a second; the javanese might not have had a good place to store it when it was stolen. It should definitely be returned now but the british might have saved thousands of artefacts by stealing them from other less stable regions.

Javanese definitions

noun

a native or inhabitant of Java

See also: Javanese Javan

noun

the Indonesian language spoken on Java

See also: Javanese

adjective

of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language; "Javanese temples"; "Javanese dialects"

See also: Javanese Javan