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Countries

Countries

Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

462
0 46
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National Language

Spain
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Second Language

Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa

Minority Language

Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Zambia

Regulated By

Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
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Interesting Facts

  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

French Language
Zulu language

Derived From

Latin
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2731
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2218
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks32 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hola
Moni

Thank You

Gracias
Zikomo

How Are You?

Cómo estás?
Muli bwanji?

Good Night

Buenas Noches
Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

Bonne soirée
Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

Buenas Tardes
Masana abwino

Good Morning

Buenos Días
M'mawa wabwino

Please

Por Favor
Chonde

Sorry

triste
pepani

Bye

adiós
anatsanzikana

I Love You

Te Quiero
Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

Discúlpeme
Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mexican Spanish
Kasungu

Where They Speak

Mexico
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

105,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Cuban Spanish
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

Cuba
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Puerto Rican Spanish
Kimaravi

Where They Speak

Puerto Rico
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

3,900,000.001,200,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

215
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

489.00 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

6.15 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

410.00 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

89.50 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Español
Nyanja

Alternative Names

Castellano, Castilian, Español
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

espagnol; castillan
chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Spanisch
Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

Spanish people
Chewa people

History

Origin

210 BC
15th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Romance
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Spanish and Spanish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Chewa

Language Position

227
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Spanish
Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

es
ny

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

spa
nya

ISO 639 2/B

spa
nya

ISO 639 3

spa
nya

ISO 639 6

spa
nya

Glottocode

stan1288
nyan1308

Linguasphere

51-AAA-b
99-AUS-xaa – xag

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Spanish and Chewa Alphabets

Spanish and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Spanish and Chewa. In Spanish Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Spanish and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Spanish and Chewa languages. The Spanish phonology consist Spanish vowels and Spanish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Spanish greetings vs Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Spanish and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Spanish and Chewa Speaking population

Spanish and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Spanish and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Spanish and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Spanish language is 6.15 % 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 Spanish and Chewa on Spanish vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Spanish and Chewa Language Codes

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