Gweno language
| Gweno | |
|---|---|
| Kigweno | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Region | North Pare Mountains, Kilimanjaro Region |
| Ethnicity | 2,200 (2006)[1] |
Native speakers |
(older adults)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
gwe |
| Glottolog |
gwen1239[2] |
E.65[3] | |
Gweno is a Bantu language spoken in the North Pare Mountains in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. The people known as the Gweno (or more properly Asu[4]) are a Chaga ethnic and linguistic group. The language is today spoken mostly by older adults, with younger generations having shifted to Asu and Swahili.[1] Ethnologue considers Gweno to be moribund;[1] the Gweno stopped raising children to speak the language about 20 years ago.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Gweno language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gweno". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Phillipson, Gerard; Nurse, Derek. "Gweno, a little known Bantu language of Northern Tanzania" (PDF). CNWS Publications.
- ↑ Winter, Christoph (1992). "175 years of language shift in Gweno". In Brenzinger, Matthias. Language Death Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 285–298. ISBN 978-3-11-087060-2.
Further reading
- Sewangi, Seleman S. (2008). Kigweno: Msamiati wa Kigweno–Kiswahili–Kiingereza / Gweno–Swahili–English Lexicon. ISBN 9987-691-16-1.
External links
- Gweno Language at The Endangered Languages Project
- Numeral Systems found at LingWeb
- Gweno, a little known Bantu language of Northern Tanzania
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