Suba language
Not to be confused with Suba language (Tanzania).
Suba | |
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Native to | Kenya |
Region | eastern shore Lake Victoria, Mfangano Island, Rusinga Island |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2009 census)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
sxb |
Glottolog |
suba1238 [2] |
JE.403 (shared w Suba-Simbiti) [3] |
The Suba language is the language of Kenya's Suba people. Nearly all are bilingual in Dholuo. The language has many dialects: namely Olusuba which is the main one. Others include Ekisuva and Ekisuba spoken by the different clans.
References
- ↑ Suba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Suba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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