Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Zulu language
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moni
Namaskar
Thank You
Zikomo
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Chonde
Chike
Sorry
pepani
Maf kor
Bye
anatsanzikana
Adeus
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Pepani
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Antruz
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Goa
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Not present
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Not present
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
konkani
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Konkanis
Origin
15th Century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Chewa
Kokani
Language Position
2723
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ny
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
kok
ISO 639 2/B
nya
kok
ISO 639 3
nya
kok
ISO 639 6
nya
kok
Glottocode
nyan1308
goan1235
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-