Language code: ny

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.

Code

ny

Name

Official

Chichewa

Native

ChiCheŵa

Family
Bantu
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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

Speakers

7.3M

500K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Chichewa speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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