Tonga people (Malawi)

The Tonga (also called Nyasa Tonga) are an ethnic group living in northern Malawi in Nkhata Bay District who are part of the Tumbuka group of peoples. The Nyasa Tongas speak a dialect of Chitumbuka called Chitonga.

Their language dialect and Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe belong to different branches of the Bantu family and are not related.

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