Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Zambia
India
Regulated By
-
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Zulu language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1840
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moni
خوش آمديد
Thank You
Zikomo
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
گڈ مارننگ
Please
Chonde
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
pepani
معاف کرنا
Bye
anatsanzikana
الوداع
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
Pepani
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
India
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
India
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
South Asia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Bihari
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
ourdou
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Urdu
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
15th Century
12th Century CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Chewa
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
2720
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ny
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
urd
ISO 639 2/B
nya
urd
ISO 639 3
nya
urd
ISO 639 6
nya
urd
Glottocode
nyan1308
urdu1245
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional