Countries
Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Zambia
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Not Available
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Zulu language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3152
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1841
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
NA3
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
NANA
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Moni
nomoskaar
Thank You
Zikomo
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
subhoraattri
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
subha abeli
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
suprobhaat
Please
Chonde
anugroha kori
Sorry
pepani
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
anatsanzikana
biḍai
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
Pepani
kyoma koribo
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Assam
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million15.30 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
0.17 %0.24 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million15.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
assamais
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Assamese people
History
Origin
15th Century
7th century A.D
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Chewa
Assamese
Language Position
NA65
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ny
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
asm
ISO 639 2/B
nya
asm
ISO 639 3
nya
asm
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nyan1308
assa1263
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
59-AAF-w
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available