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Chichewa

Chichewa or Chewa or Chinyanja or Nyanja is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Eastern Zambia and Tete province of Mozambique. It is a minority language also in northeastern Zimbabwe. In Malawi, the name was officially changed from Chinyanja to Chichewa in 1968 at the insistence of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda, and is still the name most commonly used in Malawi today. In Zambia, Nyanja is still the preferred name, and Town Nyanja (Lusaka Nyanja) is rather divergent, under the influence of other languages in Lusaka. Chichewa belongs to the Narrow Bantu group, which is classified within the Volta-Congo branch. Like other Bantu languages, Chichewa has a noun class system, a characteristic feature of languages belonging to the Atlantic–Congo lineage, the largest demonstrated language family in Africa.

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