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Chewa
Chewa

Sinhalese
Sinhalese



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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.

Similar To

Zulu language
Maldivian Language

Derived From

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3154
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

518
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1836
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

52
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

Zikomo
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

Chonde
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

pepani
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

anatsanzikana
බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

Pepani
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Vedda

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
-

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
-

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

51
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million16.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
singhalais

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Sinhalese people

History

Origin

15th Century
3

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Bantu
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Chewa
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

2770
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
si

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
sin

ISO 639 2/B

nya
sin

ISO 639 3

nya
sin

ISO 639 6

nya
sin

Glottocode

nyan1308
sinh1246

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional

Chewa and Sinhalese Alphabets

Chewa and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chewa and Sinhalese. In Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Chewa and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chewa and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chewa and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Chewa and Sinhalese Speaking population

Chewa and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. 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 Sinhalese on Chewa vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Sinhalese Language Codes

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