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Technical information about ISO 639 language code ny
The table below provides technical details for the Chichewa language, designated by the ny
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Chichewa, also known as Chewa, belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, specifically the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Malawi, and is also used by Malawian communities in Mozambique and Zambia. Chichewa is written using the Latin script (Chewa alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 7 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Chichewa speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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