Countries
India
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Munda Language
Zulu language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3031
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2118
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks32 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
Moni
Thank You
Adi Johar
Zikomo
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
Masana abwino
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
M'mawa wabwino
Please
দয়া করে
Chonde
Sorry
দুঃখিত
pepani
Bye
Hariau
anatsanzikana
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Pepani
Dialect 1
Mahali
Kasungu
Where They Speak
India
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
-
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
-
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
15
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million12.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
santal
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Santali
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Chewa people
Origin
20th century
15th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Chewa
Language Position
4127
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
nya
ISO 639 2/B
sat
nya
ISO 639 3
sat
nya
ISO 639 6
sat
nya
Glottocode
sant1410
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-