Lala language (South Africa)

Lala
Native to	South Africa
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic_Congo Benue_Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Southern Bantu Nguni Tekela Lala
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	lala1263[1]
Guthrie code	S.406[2]

Lala is a Bantu language of South Africa, claimed to be extinct in some sources.^[2] As of 1999, however, there were still a number of communities of speakers in the coastal regions of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Although it is a Tekela Nguni language, for sociological reasons it is often considered a dialect of Zulu (a Zunda Nguni language), whereas it differs quite markedly in phonology and to a degree in morphology, and with a large portion of its lexicon derived from Xhosa (because of Xhosa-medium schooling in the old Natal South Coast) and the IsiZansi Tekela variety of the lower South Coast.^[3]

Lala	Standard Zulu	Gloss
nilo	umlilo	fire
tiyomo	izinkomo	cattle
madi	amanzi	water

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lala (Zulu)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
3. "A comparative phonological and morphological analysis of the North and South Lala dialects of Tekela Nguni" (PDF). University of South Africa (UNISA). 1999-12-01. Retrieved 2015-09-17.