Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Zambia
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
-
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Zulu language
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3136
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1829
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moni
Përshëndetje
Thank You
Zikomo
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
Si jeni?
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
natën e mirë
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
mirëdita
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
mirëmengjes
Please
Chonde
Ju lutem
Sorry
pepani
Me fal
Bye
anatsanzikana
mirupafshim
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
Pepani
Më falni
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Shqip
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
albanais
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Albanians
Origin
15th Century
1462 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Chewa
Standard Albanian
Language Position
2714
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ny
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
nya
alb
ISO 639 3
nya
sqi
ISO 639 6
nya
sqi
Glottocode
nyan1308
alba1267
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic