Amba language (Bantu)

Not to be confused with Amba language (Solomon Islands) or Ambo language.
Amba
Kwamba
Native to Uganda, DR Congo
Native speakers
 40,000 (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rwm
Glottolog amba1263[2]
D.22[3]
Vamba
Native to DR Congo
Region Ruwenzories–Kivu
Extinct (date missing)[3]
Amba-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog None
D.20B[3]

Amba (also spelled Bulebule, Hamba, Humu, Kihumu, Ku-Amba, Kuamba, Lubulebule, Lwamba, Ruwenzori Kibira, and Rwamba) is a language spoken in parts of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Amba people. The Amba people call it Kwamba and it is known as Kihumu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Amba has a 70% lexical similarity with Bera. Dialects include Kyanzi (Kihyanzi) and Suwa (Kusuwa).

There was once an Amba pidgin called Vamba, now extinct.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Amba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Amba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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