1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
2.5.1 How Many Consonants
2.6 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.7 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.8 Hard to Learn
2.8.1 Language Levels
2.8.3 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
12.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Chewa people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
15th Century
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available