Nkoya language
Nkoya is a Bantu language of Zambia. It may be one of the Luba languages, and is at least Luban.
| Nkoya | |
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| Shinkoya | |
| Native to | Zambia |
Native speakers | 36,000 (2010 census)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nka |
| Glottolog | nkoy1244[2] |
L.60 (L.601–603,61–62)[3] | |
Maho (2009) considers the various varieties—Mbwera, Kolwe, Shangi, Shasha, and Nkoya proper—to be distinct languages in an Nkoya language cluster.[3]
References
- Nkoya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nkoya". 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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