Zanaki language

Zanaki
Native to	Tanzania
Region	Mara Region, Musoma Rural District, Makongoro Division
Native speakers	100,000 (2005)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Logooli–Kuria (E.40) Zanaki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zak
Glottolog	zana1238[2]
Guthrie code	JE.44[3]

Zanaki (Ikizanaki) is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It is spoken by the Zanaki people of Musoma and was the first language of Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere,^[4] son of the King Burito Nyerere (1860–1942).

References

1. Zanaki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Zanaki". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
4. Aydemir, Murat (2008). Migratory settings. Rodopi. p. 102. ISBN 90-420-2425-9.