1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Indonesia
Malawi, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Indonesia
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.4 Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Zambia
1.7 Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
1.9 Similar To
Malay language
Zulu language
1.10 Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Not Available
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
Not Available
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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
Usiku wabwino
3.5 Good Evening
Malam yang baik
Madzulo abwino
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
Masana abwino
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
M'mawa wabwino
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
anatsanzikana
3.11 I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
Ndimakukondani
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Malawi, Zambia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Malawi, Zambia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million12.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
23.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
140.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
5.3.4 French Name
indonésien
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
5.3.5 German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Nyanja-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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
No data available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available