1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Zambia
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Language Academy of Nepal
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Zikomo
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
Usiku wabwino
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
pepani
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
anatsanzikana
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
Ndimakukondani
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Pepani
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
India, Nepal
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million25.00 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
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
népalais
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Chewa people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative