Shanjo language

Shanjo
Native to Zambia
Native speakers
4,400 total of perhaps Shanjo, Mala, and Kafue Twa (2010 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 included in toi
Glottolog shan1291[2]
K.36[3]

Shanjo (Sanjo) is a Bantu language of Zambia. Maho (2009) lists it as distinct from Tonga, which it has sometimes been classified as a dialect of.[3]

References

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


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