Ndali language

Ndali
Chindali
Native to	Tanzania, Malawi
Ethnicity	Ndali
Native speakers	unknown (220,000 cited 1987–2003)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Rukwa Rungwe Ndali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ndh
Glottolog	ndal1241[2]
Guthrie code	M.301[3]

Ndali, or Chindali, is a Bantu language spoken by an increasing population in southern Tanzania of 150,000 (1987) and in northern Malawi by 70,000 (2003).

Sukwa, or Chisukwa, spoken in the Misuku Hills of Malawi by fewer than 1000 people, appears to be a dialect of Ndali. The University of Malawi Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi (2006) classifies Lambya, Sukwa, and Ndali as three closely related dialects.^[4] The same survey contains some vocabulary in the three dialects and a short text (the Tortoise and the Hare) in each one.

For further information see Kershner (2001).^[5]

References

1. Ndali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ndali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
4. For the University of Malawi Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi see External links.
5. Kershner, Tiffany (2001). "Imperfectivity in Chisukwa" in Explorations in African Linguistics: From Lamso to Sesotho, eds. Robert Botne and Rose Vondrasek, Bloomington: Indiana University Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 37–52.

External links

• Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi. University of Malawi Centre for Language Studies, 2006.
• Language Map of Northern Malawi
• Paper by Martin Walsh and Imani Swilla on South-West Tanzanian languages (2002)