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Countries

Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
Chewa-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
31 13

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
18 8

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks 11

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 35

Dialect 2
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00 37

Dialect 3
Kimaravi

Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00 54

Total No. Of Dialects
5 5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
12.00 million 50

Speaking Population
0.17 % 50

Native Speakers
12.00 million 44

Second Language Speakers
1.50 million 59

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
27 25

Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ny

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
-

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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 5 vowels and 18 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.

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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: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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: Chewa is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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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: Moni
  • Thank you: Zikomo
  • Good Morning: M'mawa wabwino
  • Good Evening: Madzulo abwino
  • Good Afternoon: Masana abwino

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.

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