Home to 2 dialects represented on Dialect Atlas, spanning 2 language families.
also: Chibemba, Icibemba
A Bantu language and the most-spoken indigenous language of Zambia, used across the Northern, Luapula, and Copperbelt provinces. A major lingua franca on the Zambian Copperbelt.
also: Nyanja, Chinyanja
A Bantu language and the national language of Malawi, also widely spoken in eastern Zambia and northern Mozambique under the name Nyanja. Around 14 million speakers.