Zimba language
Not to be confused with Dhimba (Zimba) language.
Zimba | |
---|---|
South Binja | |
Native to | DR Congo |
Native speakers | 120,000 (1994 census)[1] |
Dialects |
|
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
zmb |
Glottolog |
zimb1251 [2] |
D.26 [3] |
Zimba is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoken in a band of country south of the Elila River.[4] It is not closely related to other languages, unless the divergent dialects Kwange and Mamba (Kyenyemamba) are considered separate languages.
References
- ↑ Zimba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Zimba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Bryan, Margaret Arminel (Compiler), The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press 1959.
Official language | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
National languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indigenous languages (by province) |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sign languages |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.