Chewa language (redirect from Chichewa)
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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often used interchangeably with Chewa, is Nyanja. Their language is called Chichewa. Internationally, the Chewa are mainly known for their masks and their...
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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...
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Chichewa (also but less commonly known as Chinyanja, Chewa or Nyanja) is the main lingua franca of central and southern Malawi and neighbouring regions...
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Pitch-accent language (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
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...
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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...
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Mzungu (category Articles containing Chichewa-language text)
the use of the term azungu to refer to individual foreigners in Malawi's Chichewa language. The possessive kizungu (or chizungu) translated literally means...
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Augmentative (section Chichewa)
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...
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Reciprocal pronoun (section Verbal affix: Chichewa)
reciprocal antecedent the boys. The same holds of the Chichewa example in (11b): the Chichewa reciprocal likewise requires a group antecedent. (11) a...
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Central Africa Presbyterian. Paas is the author of the Oxford Chichewa-English and English-Chichewa Dictionary. He is the father of missiologist Stefan Paas...
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