Country Info

Malawi Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 14,358,758 people (75% of Malawi) that can read or write at least one language.

5 Writing Systems used in Malawi

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
12,093,606
people

Nyanja (Latin)

ny-latn
language code
12,093,606
people

Tumbuka (Latin)

tum-latn
language code
1,612,480
people

Nyasa Tonga (Latin)

tog-latn
language code
188,122
people

Zulu (Latin)

zu-latn
language code
63,347
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR