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Chewa and Tibetan


Tibetan and Chewa


Countries

Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Africa  
Asia  

Minority Language
Zambia  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Not Available  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

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

Similar To
Zulu language  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Chewa-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
31  
13
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
18  
8
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available  
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available  
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Moni  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
Zikomo  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
Muli bwanji?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Usiku wabwino  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Madzulo abwino  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Masana abwino  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Chonde  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
pepani  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
anatsanzikana  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
Ndimakukondani  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
Pepani  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kasungu  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Kikamtunda  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Kimaravi  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia  
China  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
12.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.17 %  
99+
Not Available  

Native Speakers
12.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Native Name
Nyanja  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja  
tibétain  

German Name
Nyanja-Sprache  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Chewa people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
15th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Benue-Congo  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Bantu  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Chewa  
Standard Tibetan  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
ny  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nya  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
nya  
tib  

ISO 639 3
nya  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
nyan1308  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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

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Chewa and Tibetan Speaking population

Chewa and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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 Tibetan on Chewa vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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