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Chewa
Chewa

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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

Total No. Of Countries

210
0 46
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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Portugal

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Zambia
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America

Regulated By

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Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.

Similar To

Zulu language
Spanish and Galician Languages

Derived From

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Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3123
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1819
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
Olá

Thank You

Zikomo
obrigado

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
Como você está?

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
boa noite

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
boa Noite

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
boa Tarde

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
bom Dia

Please

Chonde
Por Favor

Sorry

pepani
pesaroso

Bye

anatsanzikana
tchau

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
Eu te amo

Excuse Me

Pepani
desculpe me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Brazilian Portuguese

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Brazil

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
European Portuguese

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Portugal

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Daman and Diu

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.004,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

526
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million231.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %3.27 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million216.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
Português

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Português

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
portugais

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Portugiesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Portuguese people or portugueses

History

Origin

15th Century
3rd Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Romance

Branch

Bantu
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Medieval Galician

Standard Forms

Chewa
Portuguese

Language Position

276
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Signed Portuguese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
pt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
por

ISO 639 2/B

nya
por

ISO 639 3

nya
por

ISO 639 6

nya
por

Glottocode

nyan1308
port1283

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
51-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
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Chewa and Portuguese Alphabets

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

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

Chewa and Portuguese Speaking population

Chewa and Portuguese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Portuguese languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Portuguese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 %. 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 Portuguese on Chewa vs Portuguese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Portuguese Language Codes

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