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单词 nyanja
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Nyanjan.adj.

Brit. /ˈnjandʒə/, U.S. /ˈnjændʒə/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Origin: A borrowing from Chewa. Etymon: Chewa Nyanja.
Etymology: < Chewa Nyanja, self-designation. Compare earlier Manganja adj. and n.Forms with Bantu class prefixes are also sometimes found in English contexts, e.g. (in sense A. 1) the plural form Wa-nyanja , (in sense A. 2) the form Chinyanja.
A. n.
1. A member of an African people inhabiting central Malawi and adjoining areas of Zambia and Mozambique. Also (occasionally): = Manganja n. Cf. Chewa n.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [noun] > Bantu peoples
Swahili1814
Chagga1823
Mashona1835
Wagogo1840
Wachagga1849
Tumbuka1850
Sukuma1860
Wanyamwezi1860
Babemba1867
Kavirondo1870
Nyamwezi1885
Bemba1887
Chewa1887
Shangaan1887
Rwanda1889
Awemba1890
Yao1894
Ngoni1899
Nyanja1899
Kisii1905
Ganda1906
Meru1908
Lamba1909
Hutu1922
Lozi1935
Ila1956
Gogo1957
1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 28 76 Sir H. H. Johnston..distinguishes ten groups among the Bantu negroes of the eastern half of British Central Africa. Of these groups, four only are considered in this paper, the Ba-tumbuka, Nyanja, the Makua, and the Wayao.
1924 A. Werner in G. Lagden Native Races of Empire iii. 88 A Nyanja and a Tumbuka might understand each other.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 361/2 Nine main groups are historically associated with modern Malawi—the Chewa, Nyanja, Lomwe, Yao, Tumbuka, Sena, Tonga, Ngone, and Ngonde.
1990 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 240 534 The reference to fighting may point to a temporary period of alliance between the Msamala Yao and the Nyanja against the Ngoni from around the 1840s.
2. The Bantu language of the Nyanja. Cf. Chichewa n.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages
Kaffir1820
Swahilese1833
Sesotho1846
Chagga1849
Kikuyu1849
Mitshi1854
Manganja1859
Bantu1866
Kavirondo1870
Luganda1876
Sotho1876
Fan1883
Gogo1883
Lunda1883
Nyamwezi1883
Kioko1884
Barotse1888
Ganda1891
Tumbuka1891
Chichewa1897
Bemba1902
Nyanja1902
Rwanda1902
Lingala1903
Sepedi1905
Ila1907
Lamba1907
Chewa1908
Venda1908
Ngoni1911
Munchi1913
Meru1921
Yao1924
Lozi1937
Nguni1939
Ndembu1945
Mwera1947
Sango1948
Ovambo1953
Sukuma1969
Tiv1976
1902 H. Barnes Nyanja-Eng. Vocab. p. ii The vocabulary is primarily intended to help people to understand the Nyanja that they hear or read, and not to make up Nyanja to inflict on wandering natives.
1930 A. Hetherwick Dict. Nyanja Lang. p. v Not only in Nyasaland itself, but also in Northern and Southern Rhodesia..Mang'anja, or, as it is now called, Nyanja, has come to occupy the place of a lingua franca.
1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World iii. 347 Nyanja, known as Chewa in Malawi, is the major language.
1990 Eng. World-wide 218 The rivalry of Bemba and Nyanja as national lingua francas.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Nyanja or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [adjective] > Bantu peoples
Wagogo1840
Swahilian1846
Tumbuka1850
Wanyamwezi1860
Rwanda1864
Nyasa1887
Ngoni1891
Mashona1893
Ganda1894
Ila1907
Meru1908
Chewa1909
Yao1910
Nyanja1923
Lozi1937
Nyamwezi1939
Sukuma1953
Lamba1956
Gogo1969
the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages
Kaffir1588
Kongo1597
Xhosa1812
Amapondo1830
Zulu1839
Sesotho1844
Swahilian1846
Kikuyu1850
Bantu1858
Fan1861
Amandebele1872
Nyamwezi1872
Wagogo1878
Lunda1879
Luganda1882
Sotho1883
Gogo1891
Tonga1891
Chichewa1897
Ronga1897
Bemba1904
Ila1907
Tsonga1907
Meru1908
Chewa1909
Venda1913
Lingala1922
Luba1922
Pedi1922
Nyanja1923
Nguni1929
Ndebele1930
Lobedu1937
Tiv1939
Mongo1961
Siswati1964
1923 H. H. Johnston Story of my Life xi. 270 The people indigenous to the Mlanje range were of Nyanja stock dominated by these Muhammadan Yaos.
1966 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. (ed. 4) ix. 148 The spirits of dead Nyanja chiefs..are specially appealed to for rain.
1995 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 21 486 He had never heard the word and..the term did not exist either in the Shona, Ndebele or Nyanja languages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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