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Chewa language

Index Chewa language

Chewa (also known as Nyanja) is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 109 relations: Affricate, Agreement (linguistics), Al Mtenje, Alexander Hetherwick, Alveolar consonant, Approximant, Aspirated consonant, Atlantic–Congo languages, Back vowel, Bantoid languages, Bantu languages, Barnaba Zingani, Bemba language, Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga, Benue–Congo languages, Bilabial consonant, Boundary tone, British Central Africa Protectorate, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Central vowel, Chewa language, Chewa people, Close vowel, Consonant cluster, Dependent clause, Ezra Chadza, Francis Moto, Fricative, Front vowel, Glottal consonant, Grammatical tense, Harry van der Hulst, Hastings Banda, Homorganic consonant, Imperative mood, Implosive consonant, Independent clause, Infinitive, Infix, Innocent Masina Nkhonyo, Intonation (linguistics), Jack Mapanje, Johannes Rebmann, Kasungu, Kazembe, Kudu, Labial consonant, Labialization, Labiodental consonant, ... Expand index (59 more) »

  2. Chewa
  3. Languages of Malawi
  4. Languages of Mozambique
  5. Languages of Zambia
  6. Languages of Zimbabwe
  7. Nyasa languages

Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

See Chewa language and Affricate

Agreement (linguistics)

In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.

See Chewa language and Agreement (linguistics)

Al Mtenje

Alfred (“Al”) D. Mtenje (born 17 September 1953 in Ntcheu district, Malawi) is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Malawi.

See Chewa language and Al Mtenje

Alexander Hetherwick

Alexander Hetherwick CBE (1860–1939) was a Scottish minister remembered as a missionary in Africa.

See Chewa language and Alexander Hetherwick

Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

See Chewa language and Alveolar consonant

Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

See Chewa language and Approximant

Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

See Chewa language and Aspirated consonant

Atlantic–Congo languages

The Atlantic–Congo languages comprise the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa.

See Chewa language and Atlantic–Congo languages

Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

See Chewa language and Back vowel

Bantoid languages

Bantoid is a major branch of the Benue–Congo language family.

See Chewa language and Bantoid languages

Bantu languages

The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.

See Chewa language and Bantu languages

Barnaba Zingani

Barnaba M. Zingani (born 3 March 1958) is a Malawian novelist and teacher.

See Chewa language and Barnaba Zingani

Bemba language

Bemba, ChiBemba (also Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba and Chiwemba), is a Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups. Chewa language and Bemba language are languages of Zambia.

See Chewa language and Bemba language

Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga

Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga (born in 1962), also known as Ben Malunga, is a Malawian poet, writing in the Chichewa language.

See Chewa language and Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga

Benue–Congo languages

Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major branch of the Volta-Congo languages which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

See Chewa language and Benue–Congo languages

Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.

See Chewa language and Bilabial consonant

Boundary tone

The term boundary tone refers to a rise or fall in pitch that occurs in speech at the end of a sentence or other utterance, or, if a sentence is divided into two or more intonational phrases, at the end of each intonational phrase.

See Chewa language and Boundary tone

British Central Africa Protectorate

The British Central Africa Protectorate (BCA) was a British protectorate proclaimed in 1889 and ratified in 1891 that occupied the same area as present-day Malawi: it was renamed Nyasaland in 1907.

See Chewa language and British Central Africa Protectorate

Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

See Chewa language and Cambridge

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

See Chewa language and Cambridge University Press

Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

See Chewa language and Central vowel

Chewa language

Chewa (also known as Nyanja) is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. Chewa language and Chewa language are Chewa, languages of Malawi, languages of Mozambique, languages of Zambia, languages of Zimbabwe and Nyasa languages.

See Chewa language and Chewa language

Chewa people

The Chewa (or AChewa) are a Bantu ethnic group found in Malawi, Zambia and few in Mozambique. Chewa language and Chewa people are Chewa.

See Chewa language and Chewa people

Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

See Chewa language and Close vowel

Consonant cluster

In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel.

See Chewa language and Consonant cluster

Dependent clause

A dependent clause, also known as a subordinate clause, subclause or embedded clause, is a certain type of clause that juxtaposes an independent clause within a complex sentence.

See Chewa language and Dependent clause

Ezra Chadza

Ezra Jofiya Chadza (1923–1985) or E.J. Chadza, as he signed his books, was a well-known Malawian teacher, author and poet, writing especially in the Chichewa language of Malawi.

See Chewa language and Ezra Chadza

Francis Moto

Professor Francis P. B. Moto (born 1952) is a Malawian writer, academic, and diplomat.

See Chewa language and Francis Moto

Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

See Chewa language and Fricative

Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

See Chewa language and Front vowel

Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

See Chewa language and Glottal consonant

Grammatical tense

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference.

See Chewa language and Grammatical tense

Harry van der Hulst

Harry van der Hulst (born 1953, The Hague) is full professor of linguistics and director of undergraduate studies at the department of linguistics of the University of Connecticut.

See Chewa language and Harry van der Hulst

Hastings Banda

Hastings Kamuzu Banda (– 25 November 1997) was the leader of Malawi from 1964 to 1994.

See Chewa language and Hastings Banda

Homorganic consonant

In phonetics, a homorganic consonant (from homo- "same" and organ "(speech) organ") is a consonant sound that is articulated in the same place of articulation as another.

See Chewa language and Homorganic consonant

Imperative mood

The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.

See Chewa language and Imperative mood

Implosive consonant

Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.

See Chewa language and Implosive consonant

Independent clause

In traditional grammar, an independent clause (or main clause) is a clause that can stand by itself as a simple sentence.

See Chewa language and Independent clause

Infinitive

Infinitive (abbreviated) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs.

See Chewa language and Infinitive

Infix

An infix is an affix inserted inside a word stem (an existing word or the core of a family of words).

See Chewa language and Infix

Innocent Masina Nkhonyo

Innocent Masina Nkhonyo (born 3 March 1987) is a Malawian writer and poet, writing mostly in the Chichewa language.

See Chewa language and Innocent Masina Nkhonyo

Intonation (linguistics)

In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse.

See Chewa language and Intonation (linguistics)

Jack Mapanje

Jack Mapanje (born 25 March 1944), ProQuest Learning: Literature.

See Chewa language and Jack Mapanje

Johannes Rebmann

Johannes Rebmann (January 16, 1820 – October 4, 1876), also sometimes anglicised as John Rebman, was a German missionary, linguist, and explorer credited with feats including being the first European, along with his colleague Johann Ludwig Krapf, to enter Africa from the Indian Ocean coast.

See Chewa language and Johannes Rebmann

Kasungu

Kasungu is a town in the Kasungu District of the Central Region of Malawi.

See Chewa language and Kasungu

Kazembe

Kazembe is a traditional kingdom in modern-day Zambia, and southeastern Congo.

See Chewa language and Kazembe

Kudu

The kudus are two species of antelope of the genus Tragelaphus.

See Chewa language and Kudu

Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

See Chewa language and Labial consonant

Labialization

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.

See Chewa language and Labialization

Labiodental consonant

In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth, such as and.

See Chewa language and Labiodental consonant

Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, (Ziwa Nyasa) is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

See Chewa language and Lake Malawi

Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

See Chewa language and Lateral consonant

Lateral flap

A lateral flap is a family of consonantal sounds, used in some spoken languages.

See Chewa language and Lateral flap

Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

See Chewa language and Latin script

Laura J. Downing

Laura J. Downing (born 15 June 1954, Mitchel AFB, New York) is an American linguist, specializing in the phonology of African languages.

See Chewa language and Laura J. Downing

Likoma Island

Likoma Island is the larger of two islands in Lake Malawi, in East Africa, the smaller being the nearby Chizumulu.

See Chewa language and Likoma Island

Liquid consonant

In linguistics, a liquid consonant or simply liquid is any of a class of consonants that consists of rhotics and voiced lateral approximants, which are also sometimes described as "R-like sounds" and "L-like sounds".

See Chewa language and Liquid consonant

Lusaka

Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia.

See Chewa language and Lusaka

Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

See Chewa language and Malawi

Maravi

Maravi was a kingdom which straddled the current borders of Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, in the 16th century.

See Chewa language and Maravi

Mark Hanna Watkins

Mark Hanna Watkins (November 23, 1903 – February 24, 1976) was an Afro-American linguist and anthropologist.

See Chewa language and Mark Hanna Watkins

Miombo

Miombo woodland is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome (in the World Wide Fund for Nature scheme) located in central and southern tropical Africa.

See Chewa language and Miombo

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

See Chewa language and Mozambique

Mwangwego script

The Mwangwego script is an abugida writing system developed for Malawian languages and other African Bantu languages by linguist Nolence Mwangwego in 1977.

See Chewa language and Mwangwego script

Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

See Chewa language and Nasal consonant

Near future (grammar)

Some languages have grammatical categories to represent near future, a subcategory of the future tense.

See Chewa language and Near future (grammar)

Niassa Province

Niassa is a province of Mozambique.

See Chewa language and Niassa Province

Noun class

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns.

See Chewa language and Noun class

Nsenga language

Nsenga, also known as Senga, is a Bantu language of Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, occupying an area on the plateau that forms the watershed between the Zambezi and Luangwa river systems and Western Malawi land overshadowing Kachebere mountain called Mchinji. Chewa language and Nsenga language are languages of Mozambique, languages of Zambia, languages of Zimbabwe and Nyasa languages.

See Chewa language and Nsenga language

Nyasa languages

The Nyasa languages are an apparently valid genealogical group of Bantu languages.

See Chewa language and Nyasa languages

Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

See Chewa language and Open vowel

Open-mid vowel

An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

See Chewa language and Open-mid vowel

Ox

An ox (oxen), also known as a bullock (in British, Australian, and Indian English), is a bovine, trained and used as a draft animal.

See Chewa language and Ox

Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

See Chewa language and Palatal consonant

Palatalization (phonetics)

In phonetics, palatalization or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.

See Chewa language and Palatalization (phonetics)

Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

See Chewa language and Plosive

Polyglotta Africana

Polyglotta Africana is a study published in 1854 by the German missionary Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle (1823–1902), in which the author compares 280 words from 200 African languages and dialects (or about 120 separate languages according to today's classification; several varieties considered distinct by Koelle were later shown to belong to the same language).

See Chewa language and Polyglotta Africana

Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

See Chewa language and Postalveolar consonant

Prefix

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.

See Chewa language and Prefix

Prenasalized consonant

Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or occasionally a non-nasal sonorant) that behave phonologically like single consonants.

See Chewa language and Prenasalized consonant

River crossing puzzle

A river crossing puzzle is a type of puzzle in which the object is to carry items from one river bank to another, usually in the fewest trips.

See Chewa language and River crossing puzzle

Robert Sutherland Rattray

Robert Sutherland Rattray,, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881 in India – 1938), was a barrister and held a diploma in Anthropology from Oxford.

See Chewa language and Robert Sutherland Rattray

Samuel Josia Ntara

Samuel Josia Ntara (24 September 1905 – 1976) was a pioneering writer and teacher from Malawi.

See Chewa language and Samuel Josia Ntara

Semivowel

In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.

See Chewa language and Semivowel

Sena language

Sena is a Bantu language spoken in the four provinces of central Mozambique (Zambezi valley): Tete, Sofala, Zambezia and Manica. Chewa language and Sena language are languages of Mozambique and Nyasa languages.

See Chewa language and Sena language

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

See Chewa language and Sierra Leone

Sigismund Koelle

Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle or Kölle (July 14, 1820 – February 18, 1902) was a German missionary working on behalf of the London-based Church Missionary Society, at first in Sierra Leone, where he became a pioneer scholar of the languages of Africa, and later in Constantinople (Istanbul).

See Chewa language and Sigismund Koelle

Southeast Africa

Southeast Africa, or Southeastern Africa, is an African region that is intermediate between East Africa and Southern Africa.

See Chewa language and Southeast Africa

Southern Bantoid languages

Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family.

See Chewa language and Southern Bantoid languages

Steve Chimombo

Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo (4 September 1945 – 11 December 2015) was a Malawian writer, poet, editor and teacher.

See Chewa language and Steve Chimombo

Subject (grammar)

A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).

See Chewa language and Subject (grammar)

Subjunctive mood

The subjunctive (also known as conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward it.

See Chewa language and Subjunctive mood

Swahili language

Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Chewa language and Swahili language are languages of Malawi, languages of Mozambique and languages of Zambia.

See Chewa language and Swahili language

Tenuis consonant

In linguistics, a tenuis consonant is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized.

See Chewa language and Tenuis consonant

Tete Province

Tete is a province of Mozambique.

See Chewa language and Tete Province

Tete, Mozambique

Tete is the capital city of Tete Province in Mozambique.

See Chewa language and Tete, Mozambique

Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

See Chewa language and Tone (linguistics)

Tumbuka language

Tumbuka is a Bantu language which is spoken in Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania. Chewa language and Tumbuka language are languages of Malawi, languages of Zambia and Nyasa languages.

See Chewa language and Tumbuka language

Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

See Chewa language and Velar consonant

Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

See Chewa language and Voice (phonetics)

Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

See Chewa language and Voicelessness

Volta–Congo languages

Volta–Congo is a major branch of the Atlantic–Congo family.

See Chewa language and Volta–Congo languages

Voyager Golden Record

The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records which were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.

See Chewa language and Voyager Golden Record

Whyghtone Kamthunzi

Whyghtone Kamthunzi (31 July 1956 – 18 May 2000) was a leading writer in the Chichewa language of Malawi in the 1980s and 1990s.

See Chewa language and Whyghtone Kamthunzi

William Percival Johnson

William Percival Johnson (12 March 1854 in St Helens, Isle of Wight – October 1928 in Liuli, Tanganyika) was an Anglican missionary to Nyasaland.

See Chewa language and William Percival Johnson

Willie Zingani

Willie T. Zingani (born 14 March 1954) is a Malawian novelist, poet, playwright and journalist.

See Chewa language and Willie Zingani

Zambezi

The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers, slightly less than half of the Nile's. The river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.

See Chewa language and Zambezi

Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.

See Chewa language and Zambia

Zambian Braille

Zambian Braille is any of several braille alphabets of Zambia. Chewa language and Zambian Braille are languages of Zambia.

See Chewa language and Zambian Braille

See also

Chewa

Languages of Malawi

Languages of Mozambique

Languages of Zambia

Languages of Zimbabwe

Nyasa languages

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewa_language

Also known as Cewa dialect, Cewa language, Chewa dialect, Chewa phonology, Chewa-Nyanja language, Chichewa, Chichewa language, Chichewa phonology, Chichewa; Nyanja language, Chicheŵa, Chinyanja, Chinyanja language, Cinyanga, Cinyanja, Cinyanja language, History of the Chewa language, ISO 639:ny, ISO 639:nya, Manganja dialect, Manganja language, Nyanja, Nyanja dialect, Nyanja language, Nyasa dialect, Town Nyanja.

, Lake Malawi, Lateral consonant, Lateral flap, Latin script, Laura J. Downing, Likoma Island, Liquid consonant, Lusaka, Malawi, Maravi, Mark Hanna Watkins, Miombo, Mozambique, Mwangwego script, Nasal consonant, Near future (grammar), Niassa Province, Noun class, Nsenga language, Nyasa languages, Open vowel, Open-mid vowel, Ox, Palatal consonant, Palatalization (phonetics), Plosive, Polyglotta Africana, Postalveolar consonant, Prefix, Prenasalized consonant, River crossing puzzle, Robert Sutherland Rattray, Samuel Josia Ntara, Semivowel, Sena language, Sierra Leone, Sigismund Koelle, Southeast Africa, Southern Bantoid languages, Steve Chimombo, Subject (grammar), Subjunctive mood, Swahili language, Tenuis consonant, Tete Province, Tete, Mozambique, Tone (linguistics), Tumbuka language, Velar consonant, Voice (phonetics), Voicelessness, Volta–Congo languages, Voyager Golden Record, Whyghtone Kamthunzi, William Percival Johnson, Willie Zingani, Zambezi, Zambia, Zambian Braille.