Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Middle East
Minority Language
Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Zulu language
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3133
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1829
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moni
Silaw
Thank You
Zikomo
Sipas
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
Bayanit bash
Please
Chonde
Bê zehmet
Sorry
pepani
Bibûre
Bye
anatsanzikana
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Pepani
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.31 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
kurde
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Kurds
Origin
15th Century
16th century CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Chewa
Kurdish
Language Position
2714
1
120
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Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ny
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
kur
ISO 639 2/B
nya
kur
ISO 639 3
nya
kur
ISO 639 6
nya
kur
Glottocode
nyan1308
kurd1259
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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