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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Zambia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
1.9 Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Zulu language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
piye kabare?
Muli bwanji?
3.4 Good Night
wengi sing apik
Usiku wabwino
3.5 Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Madzulo abwino
3.6 Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
Masana abwino
3.7 Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
M'mawa wabwino
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
pepani
3.10 Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
anatsanzikana
3.11 I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Ndimakukondani
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
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?
82.00 million12.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
76.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
5.3.4 French Name
javanais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Chewa people
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
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
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