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Nyanja

Nyanja proper noun: the Chichewa language.

Proper noun

Nyanja

  1. The Chichewa language.
    • He laughed. Her Nyanja wasnʼt bad. ‘You were born here?’2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 405

Origin of Nyanja

Borrowed from Chichewa Chinyanjá (“Chichewa (language)”).

Questions about Nyanja

What does Nyanja mean?
Nyanja means the Chichewa language.
What part of speech is Nyanja?
Nyanja is a proper noun.

Words near Nyanja in the dictionary

  1. nyan-binary
  2. nyanbinary
  3. Nyangatom
  4. Nyangumarda
  5. Nyangumarta
  6. Nyanja
  7. Nyankole
  8. nyansook
  9. nyansooks
  10. nyanza
  11. nyanzas

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