Editing Tumbuka language (section)

== Speakers ==
In 2024, there were approximately 7.1 million native Chitumbuka speakers from all the 3 countries, excluding speakers from Zimbabwe whose data was not added. In Malawi and Zambia, there are nearly 1,600,000 people who speak it as their second language.

''In 1998, [[The World Almanac]]'' recorded the number of Chitumbuka speakers at 2 million speakers, though other sources estimated a higher number than that. The majority of Chitumbuka speakers live in Malawi and Zambia, with half a million living in South Tanzania,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tumbuka {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tumbuka |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> and over 20,000 in Zimbabwe.