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chichewa

/t͡ʃɪˈt͡ʃɛwə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English

Syllables
chichewa
IPA
/t͡ʃɪˈt͡ʃɛwə/
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The Bantu language of the Chewa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀- Chichewa chi- Chichewa Chi- Chichewa -cheŵa Chichewa Chicheŵáder. English Chichewa From Chichewa Chicheŵa, from chi- (“language”) + Cheŵa.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Chicheŵa (alternative)

Phrases

Wiktionary’s coverage of Chichewa terms nya ⁠

Frequently Paired Words

Wiktionary’s coverage of Chichewa terms ny nya nya ⁠

Synonyms

Nyanja Chewa Chinyanja chichewa language cewa

Questions

How do you pronounce chichewa?
The recorded pronunciation is /t͡ʃɪˈt͡ʃɛwə/.
What does chichewa mean?
The Bantu language of the Chewa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca.
Where does chichewa come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀- Chichewa chi- Chichewa Chi- Chichewa -cheŵa Chichewa Chicheŵáder. English Chichewa From Chichewa Chicheŵa, from chi- (“language”) + Cheŵa.

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