Gweno language

Gweno
Kigweno
Native to Tanzania
Region North Pare Mountains, Kilimanjaro Region
Ethnicity 2,200 (2006)[1]
Native speakers

(older adults)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gwe
Glottolog gwen1239[2]
E.65[3]

Gweno is a Bantu language spoken in the North Pare Mountains in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. The people known as the Gweno (or more properly Asu[4]) are a Chaga ethnic and linguistic group. The language is today spoken mostly by older adults, with younger generations having shifted to Asu and Swahili.[1] Ethnologue considers Gweno to be moribund;[1] the Gweno stopped raising children to speak the language about 20 years ago.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gweno language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gweno". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Phillipson, Gerard; Nurse, Derek. "Gweno, a little known Bantu language of Northern Tanzania" (PDF). CNWS Publications.
  5. Winter, Christoph (1992). "175 years of language shift in Gweno". In Brenzinger, Matthias. Language Death Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 285–298. ISBN 978-3-11-087060-2.

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