Shambala language
Shambala or Shambaa is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
| Shambala | |
|---|---|
| kishambaa | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Shambaa people |
Native speakers | 660,000 (2001)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ksb |
| Glottolog | sham1280[2] |
G.23[3] | |
Overview
Shambala, also Kishambala, (ki)Sambaa, (ki)Shambaa is spoken by the Shambaa in the Usambara mountains in the Lushoto District and Muheza District, Tanga Region, of northern Tanzania. Some dialectal variation exists between the language as spoken in the area around Lushoto and the areas around Mlalo and Mtae, possibly also between the Shambaa of the Western Usambara Mountains and the Eastern Usambara Mountains.
References
- Shambala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Shambala". 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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