Kwangwa language

Kwangwa
Kwanga
Native to Zambia
Native speakers
 2,400 Kwanga and Kwandi  (2010 census)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog kwan1275  (Kwanga)[2]
kwan1274  (Kwandi)[3]
K.37, K.721[4]

Kwangwa (Kwanga) is a Bantu language of Zambia.

Maho (2009) lists K.721 Kwandi as a distinct but closely related language.[4]

Kwandi and Kwanga had once been classified as dialects of the divergent Luyana language.

References

  1. ↑ Luyana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kwanga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kwandi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online