Kwangwa language
Maho (2009) lists K.721 Kwandi as a distinct but closely related language.[4]
Kwangwa | |
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Kwanga | |
Native to | Zambia |
Native speakers | 2,400 Kwanga and Kwandi (2010 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | kwan1275 Kwangwa[2]kwan1274 Kwandi[3] |
K.37, K.721 [4] |
Kwangwa (Kwanga) is a Bantu language of Zambia.
Kwandi and Kwanga had once been classified as dialects of the divergent Luyana language.
References
- Luyana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kwangwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kwandi". 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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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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