Nkoya language
Not to be confused with Mbwela language (Angola).
Nkoya | |
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Shinkoya | |
Native to | Zambia |
Native speakers | 36,000 (2010 census)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
nka |
Glottolog |
nkoy1244 [2] |
L.60 (L.601–603,61–62) [3] |
Nkoya is a Bantu language of Zambia. It may be one of the Luba languages, and is at least Luban.
Maho (2009) considers the various varieties—Mbwera, Kolwe, Shangi, Shasha, and Nkoya proper—to be distinct languages in an Nkoya language cluster.[3]
References
- ↑ Nkoya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nkoya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 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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