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
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5231
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
👆🏻
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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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
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
05
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-