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Sanskrit
Sanskrit

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Chewa



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Countries

Countries

India
Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

India
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

Not spoken in any of the countries
Zambia

Regulated By

-
-

Interesting Facts

  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

Old German Language
Zulu language

Derived From

Prakrit Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5231
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

165
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3618
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

20 weeks32 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Moni

Thank You

धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Zikomo

How Are You?

कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Muli bwanji?

Good Night

शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

शुभः सायंकालः
Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार
Masana abwino

Good Morning

सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
M'mawa wabwino

Please

कृपया (kripayā)
Chonde

Sorry

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
pepani

Bye

पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
anatsanzikana

I Love You

त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present
Kasungu

Where They Speak

-
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

140,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

-
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

140,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Kimaravi

Where They Speak

-
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

140,000.001,200,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

05
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

14.10 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

14.10 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

-1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Nyanja

Alternative Names

Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

sanskrit
chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Sanskrit
Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

Sanskrit speakers
Chewa people

History

Origin

2000 B.C.
15th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo

Branch

Indic
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms

Standard Forms

Sanskrit
Chewa

Language Position

2327
1 120
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Signed Forms

-
Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sa
ny

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

san
nya

ISO 639 2/B

san
nya

ISO 639 3

san
nya

ISO 639 6

san
nya

Glottocode

sans1269
nyan1308

Linguasphere

No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag

Types of Language

Language Type

Ancient
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Sanskrit and Chewa Alphabets

Sanskrit and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sanskrit and Chewa. In Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Sanskrit and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sanskrit and Chewa languages. The Sanskrit phonology consist Sanskrit vowels and Sanskrit consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sanskrit greetings vs Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sanskrit and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit and Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Sanskrit and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sanskrit are spoken in different Sanskrit Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sanskrit vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sanskrit and Chewa Speaking population

Sanskrit and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 % 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 Sanskrit and Chewa on Sanskrit vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Chewa Language Codes

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