Official Languages

Official status is a legal designation. It requires a constitution, language act or charter, which this platform has not yet loaded — speaker numbers cannot establish it.

Languages spoken here

Chichewa (secondary) · Gujarati (secondary) · Malawian Sign Language (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Nyanja (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Shona (secondary) · Swahili (secondary) · Tumbuka (secondary) · Yao (Africa) (secondary) · Zulu (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Malawi

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Nyanja, Chewa	10504000	Chichewa	Christianity
Tumbuka	3253000	Tumbuka	Christianity
Yao	2762000	Yao	Islam
Ngoni, Malawi	2338000	Chichewa	Christianity
Lomwe, Nguru	1218000	Lomwe, Malawi	Christianity
Sena, Malawi	734000	Sena, Malawi	Christianity
Tonga	425000	Tonga (Malawi)	Christianity
Kokola	380000	Kokola	Christianity
Nyakyusa, Ngonde	234000	Nyakyusa-Ngonde	Christianity
Ndali	122000	Ndali	Christianity
Shona	108000	Shona	Christianity
Deaf	95000	Malawian Sign Language	Unknown
Lambya	86000	Lambya	Christianity
Zulu	83000	Zulu	Christianity
Gujarati	64000	Gujarati	Hinduism
Senga	39000	Tumbuka	Christianity
Portuguese	22000	Portuguese	Christianity
Kacchi	16000	Kacchi	Islam
Nyiha, Malawi	15000	Nyiha, Malawi	Christianity
British	13000	English	Christianity
Nyika	7400	Nyika	Christianity
Greek	6500	Greek	Christianity
Hutu, Rwandese	6400	Kinyarwanda	Christianity
Swahili	4400	Swahili	Islam

Languages

22 languages recorded here.

Chichewa

English

Greek

Gujarati

Kacchi

Kinyarwanda

Kokola

Lambya

Lomwe, Malawi

Malawian Sign Language

Ndali

Nyakyusa-Ngonde

Nyiha, Malawi

Nyika

Portuguese

Sena, Malawi

Shona

Swahili

Tonga (Malawi)

Tumbuka

Yao

Zulu

All catalogue fields

156 fields recorded

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iso3: MWI
iso2: MW
ctry: Malawi
poplpeoples: 22533000
cntpeoples: 24
cntpeopleslr: 5
poplpeopleslr: 2942000
jpscalectry: 5
rol3officiallanguage: eng
officiallang: English
rlg3primary: 1
religionprimary: Christianity
percentchristianity: 73.748389210318
percentevangelical: 17.056081326051
c_10_40window: N
rog2: AFR
continent: Africa
regioncode: 7
regionname: Africa, East and Southern
workersneeded: 60
harvest_rog3: MI
harvest_iso3: MWI
harvest_iso2: MW
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harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: MW
harvest_countrynumber: 127
harvest_ctry: Malawi
harvest_ctryshort: Malawi
harvest_countrynamechinese: 马拉维
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 马拉维
harvest_countrynamedutch: Malawi
harvest_countrynamefrench: Malawi
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Malawi
harvest_countrynamegerman: Malawi
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Malawi
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Malawi
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Malawi
harvest_countrynameitalian: Malawi
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Malawi
harvest_countrynamekorean: 말라위
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 말라위
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Malawi
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Malawi
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Malawi
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Malawi
harvest_countrynamerussian: Малави
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Малави
harvest_countrynamespanish: Malaui
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Malaui
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Malawi
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Malawi
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harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
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harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
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harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
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harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: Y
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harvest_regioncode2414: 6
harvest_regioncode: 7
harvest_unsr: 014
harvest_worldabc: C
harvest_maniregioncode: AI
harvest_capital: Lilongwe
harvest_population: 22216000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/malawi.html
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harvest_unmap: https://un.org/geospatial/content/malawi
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harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
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harvest_rlg4primary: 3
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harvest_pctchinese: 0
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harvest_pctjudaism: 0
harvest_pctnonreligious: 0.2
harvest_pctother: 0
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harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 0
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harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 13.83
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
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harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A013
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
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harvest_flashmapzoomy: -242
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harvest_securitylevel: 0
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/malawi/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 101
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 3.092957746478873
harvest_v59country: Y
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=mw&joshua=mi
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-malawi
harvest_internetusage: 14
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://biblesociety-malawi.org/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 45745
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 118484
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 235
harvest_countryphonecode: 265
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harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 14.8
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harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 20.4
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .mw
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/malawi
harvest_source: WCE
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00