🇲🇼 Country
Malawi
Malawi is home to 16 languages, spoken across Southern Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.
Capital
Lilongwe
Nationality
Malawian
Currency
Malawian Kwacha (MWK)
Languages
16
Independence
Jul 6, 1964
16 active
0 endangered
0 extinct
Where the languages are spoken
Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Malawi; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.
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Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.