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Name: Nyanja
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Chichewa; Chinyanja; Chewa
Spoken in: Malawi, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
Number of speakers: 7,000,000 in Malawi (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 8,659,700 (Ethnologue)
Code: nya
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Nyanja (N.30) (njan)
Child Dialects: Peta; Cipeta; Maravi; Marave; Malawi; Chipeta (nya-pet) Ngoni; Cingoni; Chingoni (nya-ngo) Manganja; Waganga; Cimanganja (nya-man) Nyasa (nya-nys) Nyanja; Cinyanja (nya-nya) Chewa; Chichewa; Cheva; Sheva; Cewa; Cicewa (nya-che) Kunda (nya-kun)

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