Zimba language
Not to be confused with Dhimba (Zimba) language.
| Zimba | |
|---|---|
| South Binja | |
| Native to | DR Congo |
Native speakers | 120,000 (1994 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
Kwange
Mamba
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
zmb |
| Glottolog |
zimb1251[2] |
D.26[3] | |
Zimba is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoken in a band of country south of the Elila River.[4] It is not closely related to other languages, unless the divergent dialects Kwange and Mamba (Kyenyemamba) are considered separate languages.
References
- ↑ Zimba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Zimba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Bryan, Margaret Arminel (Compiler), The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press 1959.