Language code: ny
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ny
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The table below provides technical details for the Chichewa language, designated by the ny code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Chichewa Native ChiCheŵa |
| Family | Bantu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | ChichewaChinyanjaMang'anjaChipeta |
| Related languages | TumbukaSenaLomweNsengaKunda |
| Key facts | Tonal language with two contrastive tones that distinguish meaningHighly agglutinative verbs can include up to ten morphemes marking subject, tense, aspect, mood and objectsThe term “Chinyanja” literally means “language of the lake”A standardized 24-letter Latin alphabet was agreed on in 1973Urban Chichewa incorporates many recent loanwords from English and Afrikaans |
| Sample phrase | Moni, muli bwanji? |
| Character encodings | |
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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.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Chichewa speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- Getting started
- Localization workflow
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
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- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
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