Nkoya language
(Redirected from Mbwera language)
Nkoya | |
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Shinkoya | |
Native to | Zambia |
Native speakers | 36,000 (2010 census)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nka |
Glottolog | nkoy1244 |
L.60 (L.601–603,61–62) [2] |
Nkoya is a Bantu language of Zambia. It may be one of the Luba languages, and is at least Luban.
Maho (2009) considers the various varieties—Mbwera, Kolwe, Shangi, Shasha, and Nkoya proper—to be distinct languages in an Nkoya language cluster.[2]
References
- ^ Nkoya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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