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About Chewa Language



Countries
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Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe 0

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Zambia 0

Regulated By
Not Available 0

Interesting Facts
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
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Similar To
Zulu language 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Chewa-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
31 13

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
18 8

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
Not Available 0

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available 0

Greetings
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Hello
Moni 0

Thank You
Zikomo 0

How Are You?
Muli bwanji? 0

Good Night
Usiku wabwino 0

Good Evening
Madzulo abwino 0

Good Afternoon
Masana abwino 0

Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino 0

Please
Chonde 0

Sorry
pepani 0

Bye
anatsanzikana 0

I Love You
Ndimakukondani 0

Excuse Me
Pepani 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Kasungu 0

Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Kikamtunda 0

Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Kimaravi 0

Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
5 5

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
12.00 million 50

Speaking Population
0.17 % 47

Native Speakers
12.00 million 44

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
Nyanja 0

Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa 0

French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja 0

German Name
Nyanja-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Chewa people 0

History
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Origin
15th Century 0

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family 0

Subgroup
Benue-Congo 0

Branch
Bantu 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Chewa 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
ny 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
nya 0

ISO 639 2/B
nya 0

ISO 639 3
nya 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
nyan1308 0

Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available 0

Language Morphological Typology
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Know Alphabets in Chewa

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Chewa Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Chewa Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Chewa. Chewa phonology gives Chewa vowels and Chewa consonants. There are 5 vowels and 18 consonants in Chewa language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Chewa is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Chewa language is given in detail in this section.

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All Chewa countries

Want to explore all Chewa countries? About Chewa language serves you with all Chewa Speaking Countries. Countries that use Chewa as official language are called as Chewa countries.

  • Countries that use Chewa as their National Language are: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Chewa as second language are: Chewa is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Chewa greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Chewa Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Chewa language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Chewa language.Learn Chewa greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Moni
  • Thank you: Zikomo
  • Good Morning: M'mawa wabwino
  • Good Evening: Madzulo abwino
  • Good Afternoon: Masana abwino

All Chewa Language Codes

Get to know all Chewa language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Chewa Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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