Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Zambia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
-
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Zulu language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3133
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1822
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Moni
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Zikomo
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Chonde
будь ласк
Sorry
pepani
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
anatsanzikana
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Pepani
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Podillian
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Volynian
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Steppe
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
515
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
ukrainien
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Ukrainians
Origin
15th Century
1561
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Bantu
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Chewa
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2726
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ny
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
nya
ukr
ISO 639 3
nya
ukr
ISO 639 6
nya
ukr
Glottocode
nyan1308
ukra1253
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic