Countries
Indonesia
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Zambia
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Zulu language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2731
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2118
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks32 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Moni
Thank You
matur nuwun
Zikomo
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Masana abwino
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
M'mawa wabwino
Please
matur nuwun
Chonde
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
pepani
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
anatsanzikana
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
Pepani
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Kasungu
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
165
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
javanais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Javanisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Chewa people
Origin
450 AD
15th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Chewa
Language Position
1127
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
nya
ISO 639 2/B
jav
nya
ISO 639 3
jav
nya
ISO 639 6
jav
nya
Glottocode
java1253
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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