Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Zulu language
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3144
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1833
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moni
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Zikomo
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Chonde
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
pepani
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
anatsanzikana
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Pepani
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Marwari
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
521
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
hindi
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Hindustani people
Origin
15th Century
7th Century
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
Standard Hindi
Language Position
275
1
120
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Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ny
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
hin
ISO 639 2/B
nya
hin
ISO 639 3
nya
hin
ISO 639 6
nya
hins
Glottocode
nyan1308
hind1269
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic