Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
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
-
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
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3154
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
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)
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
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional