Central Kilimanjaro language

Central Kilimanjaro
	Central Chaga
Native to	Tanzania
Region	Kilimanjaro
Ethnicity	Chaga
Native speakers	(900,000 cited 1992–2000)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Chaga–Taita Chaga Central Kilimanjaro; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; vun – Wunjo; old – Mochi
Glottolog	vunj1238 Vunjo[2]; moch1256 Mochi[3]
Guthrie code	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 (Old Moshi, Mochi, Kimochi)
Uru
Mbokomu
Wuunjo (Wunjo, Vunjo, Kivunjo), including Kiruwa, Kilema, Mamba, Moramu (Marangu), Mwika

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

Bibliography

Dalgish, Gerard M. (1978) 'The syntax and semantics of the morpheme ni in kiVunjo (Chaga)', Kiswahili, 48, 1, 42–56.
Philippson, Gérard (1984) '"Gens des bananeraies" (Tanzanie): contribution linguistique à l'histoire culturelle des Chaga du Kilimanjaro' (Cahier no. 16.) Paris: Editions Recherche sur les civilisations.

↑ Wunjo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Mochi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Vunjo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mochi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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