chiTumbuka is spoken by 1,068,000 people: 662,000 in Malawi, 406,000 in Zambia.
Publishing History
Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1904.
The New Testament was first published in 1911.
The complete Bible was first published in 1957.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Common Language Translation, first published in 1980 by Mali, Blantyre. This page is taken from a Bible published in 1988 by The Bible Society of Zambia, Lusaka.