Kivunjo language
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| kiVunjo | ||
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| Spoken in: | Tanzania, Kenya | |
| Region: | Kilimanjaro Region, Chaga area | |
| Total speakers: | 1.5 million | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Narrow Bantu Central kiVunjo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bnt | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | vun | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Kivunjo (also Vunjo) is a Bantu language, spoken mainly in Tanzania and by some over the border in Kenya, by approximately 300,000 people (1992 UBS). It is spoken in the Chaga area of the Kilimanjaro region. Kivunjo is closely related to the other Chaga languages Rombo, Moshi, and Machame languages, with which it is said to form a dialect continuum.
[edit] Bibliography
- Dalgish, Gerard M. (1978) 'The syntax and semantics of the morpheme ni in kiVunjo (Chaga)', Kiswahili, 48, 1, 42–56.
- Philippson, Gérard (1984) '"Gens des bananeraies" (Tanzanie): contribution linguistique à l'histoire culturelle des Chaga du Kilimanjaro' (Cahier no. 16.) Paris: Editions Recherche sur les civilisations.
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