Countries
Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Zambia
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Zulu language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1830
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Moni
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Zikomo
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Chonde
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
pepani
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
anatsanzikana
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Pepani
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
China
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.17 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nyanja
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
tibétain
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
tibetan people
History
Origin
15th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Chewa
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
Code
ISO 639 1
ny
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
bod
ISO 639 2/B
nya
tib
ISO 639 3
nya
bod
ISO 639 6
nya
bod
Glottocode
nyan1308
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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