West Nyala language

West Nyala
Native to	Kenya
Region	shores of Lake Victoria
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Nyoro–Ganda West Nyala; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Nyara;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in East Nyala)
Glottolog	west2861[1]
Guthrie code	JE.18[2]

West Nyala (Nyala B) is a Bantu language of western Kenya, on the shores of Lake Victoria. It is closely related to Ganda, and is a distinct language from East Nyala, which is a dialect of Luhya.^[2]

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "West Nyala". 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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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "West Nyala". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Guthrie-2] 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online