Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Zambia
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Zulu language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Chewa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Moni
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Zikomo
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Chonde
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
pepani
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
anatsanzikana
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Pepani
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Kasungu
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
12.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Nyanja
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
  
Russki
  
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
  
russe
  
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Chewa people
  
Russians
  
Origin
15th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Chewa
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ny
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nya
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
nya
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
nya
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nyan1308
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic