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Chewa
Chewa

German
German



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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Zambia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

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Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Zulu language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

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Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3126
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

189
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
hallo

Thank You

Zikomo
Danke

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
guten Tag

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
guten Morgen

Please

Chonde
bitte

Sorry

pepani
Verzeihung

Bye

anatsanzikana
Tschüs

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Pepani
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Germany

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Texas German

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Texas

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

528
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
allemand

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Germans

History

Origin

15th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Germanic

Branch

Bantu
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Chewa
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

279
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
deu

ISO 639 2/B

nya
ger

ISO 639 3

nya
deu

ISO 639 6

nya
deus

Glottocode

nyan1308
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Chewa and German Alphabets

Chewa and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chewa and German. In Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Chewa and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chewa and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chewa and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Chewa and German Speaking population

Chewa and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and German languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Chewa vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and German Language Codes

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