Ikizu language
Ikizu (Ikikizu, Kiikiizo) is a Bantu language spoken by the Ikizu peoples of Tanzania. Dialects are Ikizu proper and Sizaki. Maho (2009) treats Sizaki (Shashi) as a separate language. However, Ethnologue 16 retired the ISO code for Sizaki, merging it into Ikizu.
Ikizu | |
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Ikikizu | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Native speakers | 55,000 (2005)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | ikz |
Glottolog | ikiz1238 [2] |
JE.402,404 [3] |
Orthography
Ikuzu uses the Latin alphabet. It does not include the letters Q, V, or X. The letters B and C are only used in the forms Bh and Ch.
gollark: <@341618941317349376> Normal no, ethical... well, it doesn't seem to be harming anyone else right now, so sure?
gollark: If you write one line of code per second constantly you'll be done in about half a year.
gollark: It's only several million lines of incredibly complex code.
gollark: You could alwaysWRITE YOUR OWN BROWSER ENGINE!
gollark: Probably not!
References
- Ikizu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ikizu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Sewangi, Seleman S. (2008). Kiikiizo: Msamiati wa Kiikiizo–Kiingereza–Kiswahili na Kiingereza–Kiikiizo–Kiswahili / Ikiizo–English–Swahili and English–Ikiizo–Swahili Lexicon. ISBN 9987691110.
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