Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Zulu language
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
مساء الخير
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
صباح الخير
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
أحبك
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Sudan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Levantine
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Nyanja
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
arabe
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Arabisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Arabs
Origin
15th Century
512 CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Semitic
Branch
Bantu
North Arabic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Chewa
Modern Standard Arabic
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nyan1308
arab1395
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Chewa and Arabic Speaking population
Chewa and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Chewa and Arabic on Chewa vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chewa and Arabic Language Codes
Chewa and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chewa and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.