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    usually called Chichewa and Chinyanja (spelled Cinianja in Portuguese). In Malawi, the name was officially changed from Chinyanja to Chichewa in 1968 at the...
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  • in the Chichewa language of Malawi a tone on a final syllable often spreads backwards to the penultimate syllable, so that the word Chichewá is actually...
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  • different words or two different tenses tonally, as it is in Chichewa and other Bantu languages. However, this penultimate falling tone occurs not on every...
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  • Mzungu (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    Malawi's Chichewa language. The possessive kizungu (or chizungu) translated literally means "of the wanderers". It has now come to mean "language of the...
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    Che vuoi? (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    Malawi, the gesture refers to human testicles (machende) in the Bantu language Chichewa.[citation needed] The same gesture is used in Israel with the meaning...
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  • and neighbouring regions. Like other Bantu languages it has a wide range of tenses. In terms of time, Chichewa tenses can be divided into present, recent...
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  • essays, or plays in the Chewa language. The following have written published stories, novels, or plays in the Chewa language: William Chafulumira John Gwengwe...
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    Zambia (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    Tonga: Cisi ca Zambia; Tumbuka: Chalo cha Zambia; Lozi: Naha ya Zambia; Chichewa: Dziko la Zambia Census of Population and Housing National Analytical Report...
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    Mozambique (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
    languages include Tsonga, Makhuwa, Sena, Chichewa, and Swahili. Glottolog lists 46 languages spoken in the country, of which one is a signed language...
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    Malawi (redirect from Malawian language)
    Malawi (/məˈlɑːwi/; lit. 'flames' in Chichewa and Tumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country...
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