Ngoni language
Ngoni is a Bantu language of Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. It is one of several languages of the Ngoni people, who descend from the Nguni people of southern Africa, and the language is a member of the Nguni subgroup, with the variety spoken in Malawi sometimes referred to as a dialect of Zulu.[4][5] Other languages spoken by the Ngoni may also be referred to as "Chingoni"; many Ngoni in Malawi, for instance, speak Chewa, and other Ngoni speak Tumbuka or Nsenga.
| Ngoni | |
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| Songea | |
| Chingoni | |
| Native to | Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi |
| Ethnicity | Ngoni |
Native speakers | 311,000 (2006-2009)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ngo |
| Glottolog | ngon1269[2] |
N.12[3] | |
References
- "Ngoni". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngoni". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Miti, L. M. (1996) Subgrouping Ngoni varieties within Nguni: a lexicostatistical approach, SAJAL 16: 82–92.
- Gowlett, D. (2003) "Zone S" in The Bantu Languages (eds. Derek Nurse and Gerard Phillippson), p. 735.
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