Jita language
| Jita | |
|---|---|
| Ecijita | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Region | Mara Region |
Native speakers | 210,000 (2005)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
jit |
| Glottolog |
jita1239[2] |
JE.25[3] | |
Title page of the New Testament in Jita
Jita is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Jita–Kara–Kwaya are close to being dialects.
Like most Bantu languages, Jita is tonal. A detailed analysis of Jita tone has been made by Downing (1990), (1996), and (2014).
References
- ↑ Jita at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jita". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Bibliography
- Downing, Laura J. (1990) Problems in Jita Tonology. University of Illinois PhD thesis.
- Downing, Laura J. (1996) The Tonal Phonology of Jita. Lincom Europa.
- Downing, Laura J. (2014) "Melodic verb tone patterns in Jita". In Africana Linguistica 20:101-119, January 2014.
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