Nyasan.adj.

1848 C. Pickering U.S. Exploring Exped.: Races of Man ix. 197 The N'yasa, who inhabit the islands and perhaps the further shores of the Great Lake, seemed to be the most distant tribe known at Zanzibar.

1872 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 1 p. cxliii The strange ring in the upper lip which is characteristic of the Nyassa.

1912 C. T. Domingo Let. 17 Mar. in G. Shepperson & T. Price Independent Afr. (1958) Pl. 11 (betw. pp. 158 and 159) It may take sometimes [sic] to possess jewels of Independance [sic] among we [sic] the Nyassas. Yours, lovely. For Africa.

1959 Listener 24 Sept. 471/1 A Nyasa is hardly thought to be a man until he has gone off to work for some years in the Johannesburg gold-mines.

1993 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 26 496 Slaves, mostly Yao, Nyasa, and Ngindo, were purchased in the mainland markets of Lindi and Kilwa.

1891 J. Torrend Compar. Gram. S.-Afr. Bantu Langs. p. xix Tette and Nyassa are not the only varieties of the language of Senna.

1937 Language 13 5 The Nyanja language..was classified by Father J. Torrend..as constituting this ‘cluster’: Senna proper, Shire,..Nyassa, on Lake Nyassa,[etc.].

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 467/1 The dialects of Nyanji are Cewa,..Peta,Nyanji,..Mang'anja,..and Nyasa on the eastern shore of Lake Nyasa.

1887 A. C. Madan Kiungani ii. 30 We had never seen a single European in my time... They are called in the Nyasa language ‘wan'tu oyela’ meaning ‘white man’.

1963 Economist 6 July 23/2 His [sc. Dr. Banda's] Malawians have lost from the absence of a Nyasa delegation.

2000 D. Oliver Salvo for Afr. 41 The Shire Highlands are ours by treaty stolen from Nyasa tribes illiterate in our law.