切瓦语

齐切瓦语（），也稱尼扬贾语（）、馬拉維語，是馬拉維共和国的官方语言之一，也是当地族群的母语。这种语言主要通行于馬拉威共和国，並有五百多万人（当中接近四百万人在馬拉威、一百万在赞比亚、其余散布于鄰近国家）以这种语言作母语，语言人口接近一千万。属于班图语族的一个分支。

片語範例

 中文  齊切瓦語  城鎮齊切瓦語 你好嗎？  Muli bwanji?  Muli bwanji? 我很好  Ndili bwino  Nili bwino / Nili mushe 謝謝  Zikomo  Zikomo 是  Inde  Ee 不是  Iyai  Awe 你叫什麼名字？  Dzina lanu ndani?  Zina yanu ndimwe bandani? 我叫...  Dzina langa ndine...  Zina yanga ndine... 你有多少孩子？  Muli ndi ana angati?  Muli na bana bangati? 我有兩個孩子  Ndili ndi ana awiri  Nili na bana babili 我要...  Ndifuna...  Nifuna... 食物  Chakudya  Chakudya 水  Madzi  Manzi 多少錢？  Ndi zingati?  Ni zingati? 明天見  Tidzaonana mawa  Tizaonana mailo

 註釋 

參考文獻

 Paas, Steven, 2012. 3rd edition. Dictionary / Mtanthauziramawu. English – Chichewa / Chinyanja // Chichewa / Chinyanja – English. VTR Publications. 
 Mchombo, Sam, 2004. The Syntax of Chichewa. Cambridge Syntax Guides

 Henry, George, 1904. A grammar of Chinyanja, a language spoken in British Central Africa, on and near the shores of Lake Nyasa .

 Woodward, M. E., 1895. A vocabulary of English-Chinyanja and Chinyanja-English as spoken at Likoma, Lake Nyasa . Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
 Missionários da Companhia de Jesus 1963. Dicionário Cinyanja-Português. Junta de Investigaçôes do Ultramar.

 外部連結 

 Ethnologue - NYANJA: a language of Malawi 
 English / Chichewa (Nyanja) Online Dictionary 
 Chewa Dictionary from Webster's Dictionary
 Chichewa Home Page 
 Information on the Chichewa translation of the Holy Bible Includes the Chichewa translation of John 1:1-10.
 PanAfrican L10n wiki page on Chewa/Nyanja 
 Online English–Chichewa Dictionary 
 USA Foreign Service Institute Chinyanja basic course 
  Adaptation of English loanwords in Chichewa

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