Ngoni language
| Ngoni | |
|---|---|
| Songea | |
| Chingoni | |
| Native to | Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi |
| Ethnicity | some Ngoni people |
Native speakers |
(170,000 in Tanzania cited 1987)[1] 53,000 in Mozambique (2006) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ngo |
| Glottolog |
ngon1269[2] |
N.12[3] | |
Ngoni is a Bantu language of Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi. It is one of several languages of the Ngoni people, who descend from the Nguni people of southern Africa, and the language is a member of the Nguni subgroup, with the variety spoken in Malawi sometimes referred to as a dialect of Zulu.[4][5] Other languages spoken by the Ngoni may also be referred to as "Chingoni"; many Ngoni in Malawi, for instance, speak Chewa, and other Ngoni speak Tumbuka or Nsenga.
References
- ↑ Ngoni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngoni". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Miti, L. M. (1996) Subgrouping Ngoni varieties within Nguni: a lexicostatistical approach, SAJAL 16: 82–92.
- ↑ Gowlett, D. (2003) "Zone S" in The Bantu Languages (eds. Derek Nurse and Gerard Phillippson), p. 735.
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