Lambya language
| Lambya | |
|---|---|
| Ichilambya | |
| Native to | Tanzania, Malawi |
| Ethnicity | Lambya |
Native speakers |
unknown (40,000 in Tanzania cited 1987)[1] 60,000 in Malawi (2012) 2,000 in Zambia (1958) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
lai |
| Glottolog |
lamb1272[2] |
M.201,202[3] | |
Lambya (Rambia) is a Bantu language of Tanzania and Malawi.
Sukwa, once thought to be a dialect of Nyakyusa, is a dialect of Lambya (Nurse 1988, Fourshey 2002).
References
- ↑ Lambya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lambya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online