Chichewa Language Facts – Chewa Language Facts
Spoken by 8.7 million people, this language is called Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja and Chinyanja depending on the speaker. It is the national language of Malawi, where they know it as Chewa, but you can also find it in Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In the Zambia it is one of 7 official African languages.