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    Chewa language (redirect from Chichewa)
    language is usually called Chichewa and Chinyanja. In Malawi, the name was officially changed from Chinyanja to Chichewa in 1968 at the insistence of...
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  • Chichewa (also but less commonly known as Chinyanja, Chewa or Nyanja) is the main lingua franca of central and southern Malawi and neighbouring regions...
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  • Chichewa (a Bantu language of Central Africa, also known as Chewa, Nyanja, or Chinyanja) is the main language spoken in south and central Malawi, and to...
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  • novel (1958) and humorous short stories (1965) in Chichewa. Aloysius Dziko, author of a novel in Chichewa (1965). Walije Gondwe (b. 1936), Malawi's first...
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  • Pitch-accent language (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    pronounced Chichēwā with two mid-tones, or Chichěwā, with a rising tone on the penultimate syllable. Sentence-finally it can become Chichěwà with a rising...
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  • speaking Chichewa and the small number of English speakers outside urban centres. Also, in Malawian government schools, students are taught in Chichewa, and...
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  • separate classes that are used only as an augmentative or a diminutive. Chichewa noun class 7 prefix chi- doubles up as augmentative marker. For example...
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    often used interchangeably with Chewa, is Nyanja. Their language is called Chichewa. Internationally, the Chewa are mainly known for their masks and their...
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  • This is a list of notable persons (of any ethnicity or nationality) who wrote fiction, essays, or plays in the Chewa language. The following have written...
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  • Malawi national football team (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    The Malawi national football team (Chichewa: Timu ya dziko la Malawi) represents Malawi in association football and is controlled by the Football Association...
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  • reciprocal antecedent the boys. The same holds of the Chichewa example in (11b): the Chichewa reciprocal likewise requires a group antecedent. (11) a...
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  • Central Africa Presbyterian. Paas is the author of the Oxford Chichewa-English and English-Chichewa Dictionary. He is the father of missiologist Stefan Paas...
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    Che vuoi? (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    the gesture refers to human testicles (machende) in the Bantu language Chichewa.[citation needed] The same gesture is used in Israel with the meaning of...
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    Mozambique (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    education. The most important local languages include Tsonga, Makhuwa, Sena, Chichewa, and Swahili. Glottolog lists 46 languages spoken in the country, of which...
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    The flag of Malawi (Chichewa: mbendera ya Malaŵi) was officially adopted on 6 July 1964 when the colony of Nyasaland became independent from British rule...
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    Malawi (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    Malawi (/məˈlɑːwi/; lit. 'flames' in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country...
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  • Mzungu (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    the use of the term azungu to refer to individual foreigners in Malawi's Chichewa language. The possessive kizungu (or chizungu) translated literally means...
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  • Zambian Braille is any of several braille alphabets of Zambia. It has been developed for the languages Bemba, Chewa, Lozi, Kaonde, Lunda, Luvale, and Tonga...
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  • Distributed by Netflix Release date 25 January 2019 (2019-01-25) (Sundance) Running time 113 minutes Countries United Kingdom Malawi Languages English Chichewa...
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    species of Mondia are recognised, the other being Mondia ecornuta. Known in Chichewa as 'gondolosi', in Kenya it is known as 'mukombero', the rootstock is often...
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  • Discontinuous past (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    an action was once ongoing (and may still be ongoing)". Chichewa is a Bantu language Chichewa spoken in Malawi in central Africa. It has four tenses available...
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    Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Buryat Cantonese Catalan Cebuano Chamorro Chechen Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Chuukese Chuvash Corsican Crimean...
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    Makonde, Chopi, Chuwabu, Ronga, Kimwani, Nhungwe, Chimanika, Shona, Chiyao, Chichewa, Bitonga, Ngoni, Tswa and Chitewe. The language of the deaf community is...
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    Zulu: 10 Xhosa: 8 Shona: 7 Sotho: 5 Tswana: 4 Umbundu: 4 Northern Sotho: 4 Chichewa: 8 Makua: 8 Indo-European Germanic Afrikaans: 7–10 Romance Portuguese: 14...
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    Maravi (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    The Chewa language, which is also referred to as Nyanja, Chinyanja or Chichewa, and is spoken in southern and central Malawi, in Zambia and to some extent...
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    million) Zulu (Isizulu) (300,000) Xhosa Shimaore Shindzuani Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (7 million) Tumbuka (1 million) Yao (1 million) Shimaore Swahili is a...
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  • Нохчийн мотт; (Noxçiyn mott) Chechnyan; Chechnian Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja ny nya nya Individual Living Chichewa; Chinyanja Chinese zh zho chi zho + 16 Macrolanguage...
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  • in 1980 at Southern Illinois University with a thesis titled Aspects of Chichewa derivational phonology and syllable structure. He went on to obtain his...
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    ariary Malawi Republic of Malawi MWI Chichewa: Malaŵi—Dziko la Malaŵi English: Malawi—Republic of Malawi Lilongwe Chichewa: Lilongwe English: Lilongwe 19,889...
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  • Tumbuka language (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    /pʲ/, /skʲ/, /zgʲ/, and /ɽʲ/. In Tumbuka there are no affricates such as Chichewa /psʲ/, /bzʲ/, /t͡s/, /d͡z/. The sounds /s/ and /z/ are never nasalised...
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