Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Zulu language
Munda Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3130
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1821
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moni
Henda ho
Thank You
Zikomo
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
संध्यायान
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
Boge Setak’
Please
Chonde
দয়া করে
Sorry
pepani
দুঃখিত
Bye
anatsanzikana
Hariau
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Pepani
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Mahali
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
India
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Not present
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Not present
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
santal
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
15th Century
20th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Chewa
Santali
Language Position
2741
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ny
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
sat
ISO 639 2/B
nya
sat
ISO 639 3
nya
sat
ISO 639 6
nya
sat
Glottocode
nyan1308
sant1410
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-