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Chewa
Chewa

Serbian
Serbian



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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Zambia
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

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Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.

Similar To

Zulu language
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3130
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1825
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

55
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Zikomo
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

Chonde
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

pepani
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

anatsanzikana
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

Pepani
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Serbia

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

53
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Montenegrin

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
serbe

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Serbs

History

Origin

15th Century
11th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Bantu
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Chewa
Standard Serbian

Language Position

2744
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
srp

ISO 639 2/B

nya
srp

ISO 639 3

nya
srp

ISO 639 6

nya
srp

Glottocode

nyan1308
serb1264

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
53-AAA-g

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 Serbian Alphabets

Chewa and Serbian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chewa and Serbian. In Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Chewa and Serbian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chewa and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chewa and Serbian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Chewa and Serbian Speaking population

Chewa and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. 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 Serbian on Chewa vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Serbian Language Codes

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