Countries
China, Nepal
Malawi, Zimbabwe
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Zambia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
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Zulu language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Moni
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Zikomo
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Masana abwino
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
M'mawa wabwino
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Chonde
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pepani
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
anatsanzikana
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pepani
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kasungu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
China
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
tibétain
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Tibetisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Chewa people
Origin
c. 650
15th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
Not Available
Bantu
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Chewa
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Chewa Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Chewa Speaking population
Tibetan and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Chewa on Tibetan vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Chewa Language Codes
Tibetan and Chewa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Chewa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.