{"id":2372,"date":"2019-06-23T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/blog\/?page_id=2372"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:42:50","slug":"overview-of-linguistic-landscape-the-ciyaawo-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/genhis-africa\/overview-of-linguistic-landscape-the-ciyaawo-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ciyaawo Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ciyaawo is spoken by more than 2,5 million people in Mozambique, Malawi, and Tanzania. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<style>.embed-container {position: relative; padding-bottom: 80%; height: 0; max-width: 100%;} .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container iframe{position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;} small{position: absolute; z-index: 40; bottom: 0; margin-bottom: -15px;}<\/style><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" title=\"Map of Niassa\" src=\"\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/Embed\/index.html?webmap=eed83dfafcb74af3a8c15bf5645e126c&amp;extent=34.5287,-13.8234,38.5854,-11.5217&amp;zoom=true&amp;previewImage=false&amp;scale=true&amp;basemap_gallery=true&amp;disable_scroll=true&amp;theme=light\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Map of Niassa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mozambique Ciyaawo is mainly spoken in Niassa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other main languages of this northwestern province are Cinyanja and Emakhuwa. Ciyaawo is spoken by approximately 37 percent of the population, Cinyanja by 10 percent, and 43 percent of the people are Emakhuwa-speakers (INE 2007). In the northern area of Niassa, Cinyanja is widely spoken along the shores of Lake Niassa while Ciyaawo is spoken in the interior. Emakhuwa is the dominant language in the southern and eastern parts of the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also important to note that Mozambique, Malawi, and Tanzania have each adopted a different orthography for writing Ciyaawo.  Even the name of the language has a different spelling: &#8216;Ciyaawo&#8217; in Mozambique and &#8216;Ciyawo&#8217; in Malawi. I use the Mozambican spelling. On Ciyaawo orthography in use in Mozambique see Armindo Ngunga and Osvaldo G. Faquir, <em>Padroniza\u00e7\u00e3o da Ortografia de L\u00ednguas Mo\u00e7ambicanas: Relat\u00f3rio do III Semin\u00e1rio<\/em>. Maputo: Centro de Estudos Africanos [CEA], 2011.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No extensive Ciyaawo-Portuguese dictionary is yet available, but in Malawi Ian D. Dicks and his team have been working on a bilingual learner dictionary in Ciyaawo and English for the past ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The English-Ciyawo Dictionary\u2014mainly targeted at final year Yaawo primary and first year high school students\u2014was published in 2018 and is currently available in book stores in Malawi and on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/English_Ciyaawo_Dictionary-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/genhis-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/English_Ciyaawo_Dictionary-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/genhis-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/English_Ciyaawo_Dictionary-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/genhis-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/English_Ciyaawo_Dictionary-780x1040.jpg 780w, https:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/genhis-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/English_Ciyaawo_Dictionary.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And good news for non-Ciyaawo speakers: A Ciyawo-English Dictionary is also under construction!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the Ciyawo English Dictionary Project see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/Ciyawo-English-Dictionary-Project-271718039673958\/about\/?ref=page_internal\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/Ciyawo-English-Dictionary-Project-271718039673958\/about\/?ref=page_internal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, for more Ciyaawo language resources see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciyawo.org\/about\/about-the-yawo-language\/\">http:\/\/www.ciyawo.org\/about\/about-the-yawo-language\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:63px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instituto\nNacional de Estat\u00edstica (hereafter INE), \u2018Recenseamento Geral da Popula\u00e7\u00e3o e\nHabita\u00e7\u00e3o 2007: Indicadores Socio-Demogr\u00e1ficos: Prov\u00edncia de Niassa\u2019 (Maputo:\nINE, 2007). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ciyaawo is spoken by more than 2,5 million people in Mozambique, Malawi, and Tanzania. Map of Niassa In Mozambique Ciyaawo is mainly spoken in Niassa. The other main languages of this northwestern province are Cinyanja and Emakhuwa. 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