Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Cabinet of Georgia
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Zulu language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3133
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1828
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moni
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Zikomo
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Chonde
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
pepani
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
anatsanzikana
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Pepani
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Kartli
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
520
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
12.00 million4.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million4.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
géorgien
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Georgians
Origin
15th Century
5th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Southern
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Chewa
Modern Georgian
Language Position
27120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ny
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
kat
ISO 639 2/B
nya
geo
ISO 639 3
nya
kat
ISO 639 6
nya
kat
Glottocode
nyan1308
nucl1302
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic