Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Zambia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Zulu language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3148
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Zikomo
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
Good afternoon
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Chonde
कृपया
Sorry
pepani
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
anatsanzikana
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Pepani
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Doteli
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
512
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
népalais
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
15th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Chewa
Nepali
Language Position
2759
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ny
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
nep
ISO 639 2/B
nya
nep
ISO 639 3
nya
npi
ISO 639 6
nya
nep
Glottocode
nyan1308
nepa1254
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative