Nyakyusa language

Nyakyusa
Ngonde
Native to	Tanzania, Malawi
Ethnicity	Nyakyusa
Native speakers	800,000 in Tanzania (2006) 300,000 in Malawi (1993)[1] (including Sukwa)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Rukwa Rungwe Nyakyusa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nyy
Glottolog	nyak1260[2]
Guthrie code	M.31[3]
Linguasphere	99-AUS-v incl. inner units & varieties 99-AUS-va...-vd

Nyakyusa, or Nyakyusa-Ngonde, is a Bantu language of Tanzania and Malawi spoken by the Nyakyusa people around the northern end of Lake Malawi. There is no single name for the language as a whole; dialects are Nyakyusa, Ngonde (Konde), and Sukwa of Tanzania and Malawi, plus Kukwe, Mwamba (Lungulu), and Selya (Salya, Seria) of Tanzania. Disregarding the Bantu language prefixes Iki- and Ki-, the language is also known as Konde ~ Nkhonde, Mombe, Nyekyosa ~ Nyikyusa, and Sochile ~ Sokili.

Sukwa is often listed as another dialect, but according to Nurse (1988) and Fourshey (2002) it is a dialect of Lambya.

References

1. Nyakyusa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nyakyusa-Ngonde". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online