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
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Zulu language
Old German Language
Derived From
-
Prakrit 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 weeks20 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moni
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
Zikomo
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
Chonde
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
pepani
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
anatsanzikana
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
Pepani
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Not present
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Not present
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Not present
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
50
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
sanskrit
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
15th Century
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Chewa
Sanskrit
Language Position
2723
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ny
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
san
ISO 639 2/B
nya
san
ISO 639 3
nya
san
ISO 639 6
nya
san
Glottocode
nyan1308
sans1269
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic