Langenesis

Niger-Congo family

Chichewa (Nyanja)

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Chichewa (Nyanja) (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Niger-Congo language. Lineage: Proto-Niger-Congo → Proto-Atlantic-Congo → Proto-Benue-Congo → Proto-Bantu → Chichewa (Nyanja).

See Chichewa (Nyanja) on the interactive map
Speakers
12M (12,000,000)
ISO 639-3
nya
Glottocode
nyan1308

Central-Eastern Bantu (Guthrie N31) language of Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Niger-Congoc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Atlantic-Congoc. 7,000 BCE – 5,000 BCE
  3. Proto-Benue-Congoc. 5,000 BCE – 3,500 BCE
  4. Proto-Bantuc. 3,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  5. Chichewa (Nyanja)c. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 21

Also descended from Proto-Bantu.

Sources