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Countries

Countries

Japan
Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa

Minority Language

Palau
Zambia

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

Korean Language
Zulu language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9931
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1418
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

55
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks32 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Moni

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Zikomo

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Muli bwanji?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Masana abwino

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
M'mawa wabwino

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Chonde

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
pepani

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
anatsanzikana

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Kasungu

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Kimaravi

Where They Speak

kansai
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.001,200,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

315
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
Nyanja

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

japonais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Japanisch
Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Chewa people

History

Origin

1185
15th Century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

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Benue-Congo

Branch

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Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Chewa

Language Position

827
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
ny

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
nya

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
nya

ISO 639 3

jpn
nya

ISO 639 6

jpn
nya

Glottocode

nucl1643
nyan1308

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
99-AUS-xaa – xag

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Chewa Alphabets

Japanese and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Chewa. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Japanese and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Chewa languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese and Chewa Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Japanese and Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Chewa Speaking population

Japanese and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Japanese and Chewa on Japanese vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Chewa Language Codes

Japanese and Chewa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Chewa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.