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Chewa
Chewa

Assamese
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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
India

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Zambia
Bangladesh, Bhutan

Regulated By

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Asam Sahitya Sabha

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.

Similar To

Zulu language
Bengali and Oriya

Derived From

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3152
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

511
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1841
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Bengali

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
nomoskaar

Thank You

Zikomo
ḍhonyobaaḍ

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
aapuni kene aase?

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
subhoraattri

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
subha gadhuli

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
subha abeli

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
suprobhaat

Please

Chonde
anugroha kori

Sorry

pepani
moi ḍukkhita

Bye

anatsanzikana
biḍai

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
moi tomaak bhaalpaao

Excuse Me

Pepani
kyoma koribo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Kamrupi

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
Goalpariya

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Bhakatiya

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Assam

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

53
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million15.30 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
assamais

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Assamesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Assamese people

History

Origin

15th Century
7th century A.D

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Bantu
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Kamarupa

Standard Forms

Chewa
Assamese

Language Position

2765
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Signed Assamese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
as

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
asm

ISO 639 2/B

nya
asm

ISO 639 3

nya
asm

ISO 639 6

nya
asm

Glottocode

nyan1308
assa1263

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
59-AAF-w

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Chewa and Assamese Alphabets

Chewa and Assamese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chewa and Assamese. In Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Assamese Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Chewa and Assamese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chewa and Assamese 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 Assamese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chewa and Assamese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chewa and Assamese 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 Assamese dialects. Various dialects of Chewa and Assamese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chewa are spoken in different Chewa Speaking Countries whereas Assamese Dialects are spoken in different Assamese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chewa vs Assamese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chewa dialects include: Kasungu, Kikamtunda. Assamese dialects include: Kamrupi , Goalpariya. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chewa and Assamese Speaking population

Chewa and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Assamese on Chewa vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Assamese Language Codes

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