Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Zulu language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3147
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1822
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moni
pranam
Thank You
Zikomo
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
Suprabhaat
Please
Chonde
kripaya
Sorry
pepani
maf karai
Bye
anatsanzikana
Alavidā
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Pepani
kripaya
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
North India
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Khortha
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
515
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
maithili
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Maithil
Origin
15th Century
14th century
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
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2740
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ny
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
mai
ISO 639 2/B
nya
mai
ISO 639 3
nya
mai
ISO 639 6
nya
mai
Glottocode
nyan1308
mait1250
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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