Countries
China, Nepal
Malawi, Zimbabwe
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Zambia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Zulu language
Alphabets in
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Chewa-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Moni
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Zikomo
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Masana abwino
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
M'mawa wabwino
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Chonde
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pepani
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
anatsanzikana
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pepani
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kasungu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Malawi, Zambia
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Malawi, Zambia
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
China
Malawi, Zambia
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
tibétain
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Tibetisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Chewa people
Origin
c. 650
15th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Chewa
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Chewa Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Chewa greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Chewa language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Chewa word for "Thank You" is Zikomo. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Chewa Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Chewa Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Chewa difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Chewa Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Chewa are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Chewa, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Chewa time required is 32 weeks.