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Chewa
Chewa

Arabic
Arabic



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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Total No. Of Countries

223
0 46
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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.

Similar To

Zulu language
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3128
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1828
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

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Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

54
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
مرحبا

Thank You

Zikomo
شكرا

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
مساء الخير

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
صباح الخير

Please

Chonde
من فضلك

Sorry

pepani
آسف

Bye

anatsanzikana
وداعا

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
أحبك

Excuse Me

Pepani
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Sudan

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Levantine

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

526
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
arabe

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Arabs

History

Origin

15th Century
512 CE

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Semitic

Branch

Bantu
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Chewa
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

2725
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
ara

ISO 639 2/B

nya
ara

ISO 639 3

nya
ara

ISO 639 6

nya
ara

Glottocode

nyan1308
arab1395

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Chewa and Arabic Alphabets

Chewa and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chewa and Arabic. In Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Chewa and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chewa and Arabic languages. The Chewa phonology consist Chewa vowels and Chewa consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chewa greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chewa and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chewa and Arabic Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Chewa and Arabic dialects. Various dialects of Chewa and Arabic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chewa are spoken in different Chewa Speaking Countries whereas Arabic Dialects are spoken in different Arabic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chewa vs Arabic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chewa dialects include: Kasungu, Kikamtunda. Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi , Sudanese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chewa and Arabic Speaking population

Chewa and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chewa and Arabic on Chewa vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Arabic Language Codes

Chewa and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chewa and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.