Nyamwezi language
| Nyamwezi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Nyamwezi |
Native speakers | 1.0 million (2006)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 |
nym |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either:nym – Nyamwezikcz – Konongo |
| Glottolog |
nyam1276 Nyamwezi[2]kono1265 Konongo[3] |
F.22[4] | |
Nyamwezi is a major Bantu language of central Tanzania. It forms a dialect continuum with Sukuma, but is more distinct from other neighboring languages.
References
- ↑ Nyamwezi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Konongo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyamwezi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Konongo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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