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Nyanja, n. and a.|ˈnjændʒə|
Also Manganja, Anyanja.
[f. Bantu nyanja lake + ma- tribal prefix, or a- plural prefix.]
A. n.
a. The name of a Bantu people found in Malawi.
b. A member of this people.
c. The Bantu language spoken by this people.
B. attrib. or as adj. Of or pertaining to the Nyanja people or their language.
1865D. & C. Livingstone Narr. Expedition Zambesi v. 108 The Manganja generally live in villages, each of which has its own headman. Ibid. 123 The practice of bathing..we afterwards found to be common in other parts of the Manganja country. 1892D. C. Scott (title) A cyclopaedic dictionary of the Mang'anja Language spoken in British Central Africa. 1902H. Barnes Nyanja-English 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. 1914J. B. Keble in Oxf. Survey Brit. Empire III. x. 243 The Anyanja are a large and important group... They inhabit the western and south⁓western shores of Lake Nyasa and the Shiré Highlands. 1924A. Werner in G. Lagden Native Races of Empire iii. 88 A Nyanja man, if addressed in Yao or Konde, would probably not understand... But a Nyanja and a Tumbuka might understand each other. 1930A. 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. 1966C. G. Seligman Races of Africa (ed. 4) ix. 148 The spirits of dead Nyanja chiefs..are specially appealed to for rain. 1974Encycl. 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. |