Lambya language

Lambya
Ichilambya
Native to Tanzania, Malawi
Ethnicity Lambya
Native speakers
unknown (40,000 in Tanzania cited 1987)[1]
60,000 in Malawi (2012)
2,000 in Zambia (1958)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lai
Glottolog lamb1272[2]
M.201,202[3]

Lambya (Rambia) is a Bantu language of Tanzania and Malawi. In Northern Malawi it is spoken particularly in the Chitipa District.[4]

Sukwa, once thought to be a dialect of Nyakyusa, is a dialect of Lambya.[5] The University of Malawi Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi (2006), agreeing with this, found that Cilambya, Cindali, and Cisukwa form a single dialect group, although there are differences between them. For example:

The Language Mapping Survey gives further vocabulary and also a short text (the Tortoise and the Hare) in all three dialects.[4]

References

  1. Lambya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lambya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. 1 2 University of Malawi Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi (2006) (see External links).
  5. Nurse, Derek (1988) "The Diachronic Background to the Language Communities of South Western Tanzania" in Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika vol 9, 15-115.

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