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Chewa
Chewa

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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
Meghalaya

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
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Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Zambia
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Regulated By

-
-

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
  • There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.

Similar To

Zulu language
Garo and Jaintia Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3123
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1814
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Bengali, Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
Kumno

Thank You

Zikomo
Khublei

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
Kumno phi long?

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
thia sukh

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
babha janmiet

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
babha noph-phai-sngi

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
khublei

Please

Chonde
Sngewbha

Sorry

pepani
Map

Bye

anatsanzikana
khublei

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
ieit ieit

Excuse Me

Pepani
map a nga

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Bhoi

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
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How Many People Speak

12,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
Nonglung

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
-

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Cherrapunji

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
-

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

55
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million0.84 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million0.84 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
Ka Ktien

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
khasi

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
[ˈkʰɑsi]

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Khasi people

History

Origin

15th Century
1200 AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Bantu
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No Early Forms

Standard Forms

Chewa
Khasi

Language Position

2740
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
kha

ISO 639 2/B

nya
kha

ISO 639 3

nya
kha

ISO 639 6

nya
kha

Glottocode

nyan1308
khas1269

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

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Chewa and Khasi Alphabets

Chewa and Khasi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chewa and Khasi. In Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Chewa and Khasi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chewa and Khasi 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 Khasi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chewa and Khasi are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Chewa and Khasi Speaking population

Chewa and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. 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 Khasi on Chewa vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Khasi Language Codes

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