Atlantic-Congo · East Africa · Southern Africa

Nyanja

Not endangered

Nyanja is documented so far only to the level of long grammar.

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationLong grammar
ISO 639-3nya
Glottocodenyan1308

Spoken in Malawi · Mozambique · Eswatini · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Atlantic-Congo's family tree with Nyanja.

  1. Mwera (Nyasa)

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  2. Barwe

    Threatened
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  3. Chikunda

    Threatened
    Wordlist or less

  4. Dema

    Threatened
    Wordlist or less

  5. Malawi Sena

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  6. Nyungwe

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  7. Phimbi

    Threatened
    Wordlist or less

  8. Sena

    Not endangered
    Grammar

Reference data for Nyanja from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)