Native Chewa Speakers
You will get to know second language speakers of Chewa language as well as native Chewa Speakers under how many people speak Chewa language. There is an estimate that there are almost 12.00 million native speakers of Chewa language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. There is no estimate available of people speaking Chewa as second language. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Chewa are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.
Native name of Chewa
How many people speak Chewa serves you with native name of Chewa language. The native name of Chewa is Nyanja. Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Chewa are Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa. The German and French names for Chewa language is as follows:
- French Name for Chewa: chichewa; chewa; nyanja.
- German Name for Chewa: Nyanja-Sprache.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Chewa on
Chewa Language Codes.