Zimba language

Not to be confused with Dhimba (Zimba) language.
Zimba
South Binja
Native to DR Congo
Native speakers
120,000 (1994 census)[1]
Dialects
Kwange
Mamba
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zmb
Glottolog zimb1251[2]
D.26[3]

Zimba is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoken in a band of country south of the Elila River.[4] It is not closely related to other languages, unless the divergent dialects Kwange and Mamba (Kyenyemamba) are considered separate languages.

References

  1. Zimba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Zimba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Bryan, Margaret Arminel (Compiler), The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press 1959.


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