Nyakyusa language
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| Nyakyusa | |
|---|---|
| Ngonde | |
| Native to | Tanzania, Malawi |
| Ethnicity | Nyakyusa |
Native speakers |
800,000 in Tanzania (2006) 300,000 in Malawi (1993)[1] (including Sukwa) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nyy |
| M.31[2] | |
| Linguasphere | 99-AUS-v incl. inner units & varieties 99-AUS-va...-vd |
Nyakyusa, or Nyakyusa-Ngonde, is a Bantu language of Tanzania and Malawi spoken by the Nyakyusa people around the northern end of Lake Malawi. There is no single name for the language as a whole; dialects are Nyakyusa, Ngonde (Konde), and Sukwa of Tanzania and Malawi, plus Kukwe, Mwamba (Lungulu), and Selya (Salya, Seria) of Tanzania. Disregarding the Bantu language prefixes Iki- and Ki-, the language is also known as Konde ~ Nkhonde, Mombe, Nyekyosa ~ Nyikyusa, and Sochile ~ Sokili.
Sukwa is often listed as another dialect, but according to Nurse (1988) and Fourshey (2002) it is a dialect of Lambya.
References
- ↑ Nyakyusa reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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