WIKITONGUES: Chabota speaking Nyanja

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This video was recorded by Daniel Bogre Udell in Cape Town, South Africa and features Chichewa speaker Chabota Kanguya. Chichewa was spoken by 7,000,000 people in Malawi as of a 2001 census, with a global speaker population totaling 10,036,700. Chichewa is a Narrow Bantu language of the Benue-Congo group belonging to the Niger-Congo language family, and is one of the seven official African languages of Zambia and by some accounts the third most widely used local language in Zimbabwe. The language is also known as Chewa or Nyanja, but because it uses the chi- noun prefix for languages, it is often called Chichewa or Chinyanja. In 1968, the name was changed in Malawi from Chinyanja to Chichewa, but in Zambia, the language is generally known as Nyanja or Cinyanja/Chinyanja, meaning 'language of the lake.' Chichewa makes some use of implosive consonants, in which air is sucked inward, and is classified as a tonal language. There is a regional variety of Chichewa known as Town Nyanja that exists in Lusaka, Zambia, and differs from standard Nyanja in several key ways (influences from Bemba, loanwords from English, and differing sets of concords, or nominal agreement markings with pronouns, adjectives, and verbs), but the fact that it is not recognized as an official language and differs from the standard Nyanja taught in schools presents challenges to literacy among children in Zambia.
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[@Cassxowary]

The noun class prefix chi- is used for languages, so the language is usually called Chichewa and Chinyanja. Native to
Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe.

[@Wonderkid44]

There’s a lot more languages that use it.

[@Cassxowary]

Travor McDonald yes, but I was speaking in terms of this language.

[@makangajulius98]

Sounds like Luganda

[@Zaitoon55]

Yeah. This is So Interesting.

[@KalungiTV]

Nange, kyendowozeza.

[@MH-yj5ed]

They're Bantu languages. They're all alike

[@1wun1]

Like luganda with some rukiga and kirundi mix

[@cin253]

@@1wun1 and with some Swahili.

[@bl00dhoney]

ISAAC!!!!

[@joy-lo4mm]

Ni mukonda uyu! Our history is needs to be out there 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@chronicstupidity1775]

uwu UwU

[@Tujae_]

Ok I need to study. It was kind of him to say both "thank you" and "zikomo" at the end. Moreover, I think this is the Chinyanja spoken in Zambia. If I'm hearing correctly, he even discusses Linda High School.

[@Hello-wn2dr]

Uwu uwu uwu uwu owo uwu

[@ephratagura8136]

Sounds kind of like amharic

[@itumelengmosailane1192]

I never knew that this language is so easy it's mix of Sotho and Nguni language thank you dikgomo it means prosperity because of cows🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@christinanomsa848]

Zikomo ambili

[@boughtdeadbyChrist]

Ndimakhala ku Malawi. Koma anzanga, mukuyankhula "Chizunyanja" kwambiri chifukwa chiyani?! Mukuyenera kuyankhula Chinyanja chenicheni! lol

[@claudiaponce8315]

ajam pero deci uwu

[@El_huncho]

Ama yakhula broken chiNyanja

[@budindeagua]

HAHAHAHA WABWINO KWAMBIRI VIDEO WAKWENZI

[@victoriavaldivia1250]

deci uwu

[@claudiaponce8315]

like para que diga uwu X

[@claudiaponce8315]

ei dont vory buniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii xD

[@erichyden145]

klick klack klickety klack klack