usually called Chichewa and Chinyanja (spelled Cinianja in Portuguese). In Malawi, the name was officially changed from Chinyanja to Chichewa in 1968 at the...

often used interchangeably with Chewa, is Nyanja. Their language is called Chichewa. Internationally, the Chewa are mainly known for their masks and their...

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...

Chichewa (also but less commonly known as Chinyanja, Chewa or Nyanja) is the main lingua franca of central and southern Malawi and neighbouring regions...

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...

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...

the use of the term azungu to refer to individual foreigners in Malawi's Chichewa language. The possessive kizungu (or chizungu) translated literally means...

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...

reciprocal antecedent the boys. The same holds of the Chichewa example in (11b): the Chichewa reciprocal likewise requires a group antecedent. (11) a...

Central Africa Presbyterian. Paas is the author of the Oxford Chichewa-English and English-Chichewa Dictionary. He is the father of missiologist Stefan Paas...