| Nyakyusa | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Tanzania, Malawi |
| Ethnicity | Nyakyusa |
| Native speakers | 800,000 in Tanzania (2006) 300,000 in Malawi (1993) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nyy |
Nyakyusa, or Nyakyusa–Ngonde, is a Bantu language of Tanzania and Malawi spoken by the Nyakyusa people around the northern end of Lake Malawi. There is no single name for the language as a whole; dialects are Nyakyusa, Ngonde, and Sukwa of Tanzania and Malawi, plus Kukwe, Mwamba (Lungulu), and Selya (Salya, Seria) of Tanzania. Disregarding the Bantu language prefixes Iki- and Ki-, the language is also known as Konde ~ Nkhonde, Mombe, Nyekyosa ~ Nyikyusa, and Sochile ~ Sokili.