Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
China, Nepal
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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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།
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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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
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Ethnicity
Chewa people
tibetan people
Origin
15th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Bantu
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Chewa
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nyan1308
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Chewa and Tibetan Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chewa and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chewa and Tibetan language. Chewa word for "Hello" is Moni or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Chewa Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chewa vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Chewa vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chewa Alphabets and Tibetan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chewa and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chewa and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chewa is Not Available while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.