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Nyanja

Chichewa

At BFSU, Nyanja is among 101 approved foreign languages, connecting the university’s multilingual education with the places and cultures where the language is used.

WHERE IT IS SPOKEN

Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique

NATIVE NAME
Chichewa
WRITING SYSTEM
Latin script
AT BFSU
One of 101 languages

LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD

See where Nyanja connects communities.

LANGUAGE REACH

≈18.9M

Nyanja is spoken across 4 countries and territories.

No. 39 of 101 languages · No. 41 by territory count

ACROSS CONTINENTS
  1. Sub-Saharan Africa

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    MalawiZambiaMozambiqueZimbabwe

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

From daily conversation in Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique to education, literature and media, Nyanja carries the accents, vocabulary and expressions of different communities.

Population and distribution figures use Unicode CLDR 48 ↗ estimates of people able to use the language, including first- and second-language users. Recorded reach counts territories with an estimated community of at least 10,000; figures are comparative, not live counts.

AT BFSU

A language opens a wider view of the world.

BFSU places Nyanja within a multilingual programme that brings language study together with literature, history, society and regional knowledge.

The language is commonly written in Latin script; its literature, media and everyday expressions carry the experiences of the communities that use it.

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