Definitions for chichewa
tʃɪˈtʃeɪ wɑchichewa

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1. Chewa, Cewa, Chichewanoun

   a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe

2. Chichewanoun

   the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa

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1. Chichewanoun

   The Bantu language of the Chea tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi's national tongues promoted as the country's lingua franca.

2. Etymology: From the Chichewa, from +.

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1. chichewa

   Chewa (also known as Nyanja, ) is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. The noun class prefix chi- is used for languages, so the language is usually called Chichewa and Chinyanja (spelled Cinianja in Portuguese). In Malawi, the name was officially changed from Chinyanja to Chichewa in 1968 at the insistence of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda (himself of the Chewa people), and this is still the name most commonly used in Malawi today. In Zambia, the language is generally known as Nyanja or Cinyanja/Chinyanja '(language) of the lake' (referring to Lake Malawi).Chewa belongs to the same language group (Guthrie Zone N) as Tumbuka, Sena and Nsenga. Throughout the history of Malawi, only Chewa and Tumbuka have at one time been the primary dominant national languages used by government officials and in school curriculums. However, the Tumbuka language suffered a lot during the rule of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda, since in 1968 as a result of his one-nation, one-language policy it lost its status as an official language in Malawi. As a result, Tumbuka was removed from the school curriculum, the national radio, and the print media. With the advent of multi-party democracy in 1994, Tumbuka programmes were started again on the radio, but the number of books and other publications in Tumbuka remains low.

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1. chichewa

   Chichewa, also known as Nyanja, is a Bantu language spoken in much of Southern, Southeast, and East Africa, primarily in Zambia and Malawi. It is a tonal language and is part of the Niger-Congo family of languages. The term "Chichewa" essentially means "the language of the Chewa people," who are an ethnic group primarily located in Malawi. The language also work as an official national language in Malawi.

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How to pronounce chichewa?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chichewa in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chichewa in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=chichewa
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chichewa
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichewa
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com