About Chewa Language | Chewa | Alphabets in Chewa

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Zambia

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

Zulu language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 13 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 8 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks

Rank: 11 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Moni

Thank You

Zikomo

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?

Good Night

Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino

Please

Chonde

Sorry

pepani

Bye

anatsanzikana

I Love You

Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00

Rank: 35 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00

Rank: 37 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Kimaravi

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00

Rank: 54 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million

Rank: 50 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.17 %

Rank: 50 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

12.00 million

Rank: 44 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million

Rank: 59 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Nyanja

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

Chewa people

History

Origin

15th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo

Branch

Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Chewa

Language Position

Rank: 25 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya

ISO 639 2/B

nya

ISO 639 3

nya

ISO 639 6

nya

Glottocode

nyan1308

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Chewa

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Chewa Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Chewa Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Chewa. Chewa phonology gives Chewa vowels and Chewa consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Chewa language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Chewa is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Chewa language is given in detail in this section.

All Chewa countries

Want to explore all Chewa countries? About Chewa language serves you with all Chewa Speaking Countries. Countries that use Chewa as official language are called as Chewa countries.

Countries that use Chewa as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Chewa as second language are: .

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Learn Chewa greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Chewa Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Chewa language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Chewa language.Learn Chewa greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello:
Thank you:
Good Morning:
Good Evening:
Good Afternoon:

All Chewa Language Codes

Get to know all Chewa language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Chewa Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.