Central Kilimanjaro language

Central Kilimanjaro
Central Chaga
Native to Tanzania
Region Kilimanjaro
Ethnicity Chaga
Native speakers
 (900,000 cited 1992–2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
vun – Wunjo
old – Mochi
Glottolog vunj1238  Vunjo[2]
moch1256  Mochi[3]
E.622 (ex-E.62a,62b)[4]

Central Kilimanjaro, or Central Chaga, is a Bantu language of Tanzania spoken by the Chaga people.

There are several dialects:[4]

Moshi, spoken by 600,000, is the language of the Chaga cultural capital, Moshi, and the prestige dialect of the Chaga languages.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Wunjo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Mochi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Vunjo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mochi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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