Mwanga language

Namwanga
Ichinamwanga
Native to Zambia, Tanzania
Ethnicity Mwanga people
Native speakers
 unknown (230,000 cited 1987– 2010 census)[1]
Dialects
Iwa
Tambo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mwn
Glottolog nyam1275[2]
M.22,26,27[3]

Mwanga, or Namwanga (Nyamwanga), is a Bantu language spoken by the Namwanga in the Northern Province of Zambia[4] (mainly in the districts of Isoka and Nakonde) and in Mbeya Region, Tanzania. The 2010 Zambian census found 140,000 speakers. The current number in Tanzania is unknown; Ethnologue cites a figure from 1987 of 87,000.[1]

The Namwanga language is similar to the Mambwe language spoken by the Mambwe people of Mbala and Mpulungu districts and the Lungu people also found in Isoka. Other similar smaller peoples include the Lambyas, the Nyikas and the Wandyas.

See also

Languages of Zambia.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Namwanga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nyamwanga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. ↑ Lee S. Bickmore (2000). "Downstep and fusion in Namwanga". Cambridge Journals (Cambridge University Press). Retrieved 2007-02-24.