Kalanga language
| Kalanga | |
|---|---|
| Ikalanga | |
| Native to | Zimbabwe, Botswana |
| Ethnicity |
Kalanga people (formerly) Lemba |
Native speakers | 950,000 (2000–2004)[1] |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Zimbabwe (both Kalanga and Nambya) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: kck – Kalanga nmq – Nambya |
| Glottolog |
kala1405[2] |
S.16[3] | |
| Linguasphere |
99-AUT-ai |
The Kalanga language, or Ikalanga, TjiKalanga, is a Bantu language spoken by the Kalanga people. It is known for its extensive phoneme inventory, which includes palatalized, velarized, aspirated, and breathy-voiced consonants. It is closely related to KheLobedu language spoken in northeastern South Africa.
Classification
Kalanga has the following dialects: Kalanga proper, Nambya (Nanzwa), Lilima (Tjililima, Humbe), Nyai (Rozvi), Lemba (Remba), Lembethu (Rembethu), Twamamba (Xwamamba), Pfumbi, Jaunda (Jawunda, Jahunda), and the extinct †Romwe, †Peri, †Talahundra (Talaunda).[3]
Bibliography
- Chebanne, A. M. & Rodewald, M. K & Pahlen, K. W. (1995) Ngatikwaleni iKalanga: a manual for writing Kalanga as spoken in Botswana. Gaborone: Botswana Society.
- Chebanne, Andy & Schmidt, Daniel (2010). "Kalanga: Summary grammar". Cape Town: CASAS monograph 75.
- Letsholo, R. (2013). "Object markers in Ikalanga". Linguistic Discovery. Dartmouth College.
- Mathangwane, Joyce T. (1999) Ikalanga phonetics and phonology: a synchronic and diachronic study. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
References
- ↑ Kalanga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Nambya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kalanga–Nambya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
External links
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Kalanga language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
| Bantu | |
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| Khoisan | |
| Indo-European |
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