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Nambya, or Nanzwa/Nanzva, is a Bantu language spoken by the Nambya people. It is spoken in northwestern Zimbabwe, particularly in the town of Hwange,[2][3] with a few speakers in northeastern Botswana. It is either classified as a dialect of Kalanga or as a closely related language.[4] The Zimbabwean constitution, in particular the Education Act, as amended in 1990, recognises Nambya and Kalanga as separate indigenous languages.[4]

Nambya
Nanzva
Native toZimbabwe, Botswana
EthnicityNambya people
Native speakers
80,000–100,000[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Official status
Official language in
Zimbabwe (both Kalanga and Nambya)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
nmq  Nambya
Glottolognamb1291
ELPNambya

Phonology


Nambya is a tonal language. It has a simple 5 vowel system and a typical Bantu consonant-vowel (CV) syllable structure. The language has onsetless syllables, but these are restricted to the word-initial position, making Nambya typical of the Southern Bantu languages.[4]


Vowels


Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a

Morphology


Like many Bantu languages, Nambya has a highly agglutinative morphology.[4]


References


  1. Nambya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Ndhlovu, Finex (2009-01-01). The Politics of Language and Nation Building in Zimbabwe. Peter Lang. p. 54. ISBN 9783039119424.
  3. Kamwangamalu, Nkonko; Baldauf, Richard B. Jr.; Kaplan, Robert B. (2016-04-08). Language Planning in Africa: The Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Routledge. p. 220. ISBN 9781134916887.
  4. Kadenge, Maxwell, D.Phil. (March 2010). "Some Segmental Phonological Processes Involving Vowels in Nambya: A Preliminary Descriptive Account" (PDF).



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- [en] Nambya language

[it] Lingua nambya

La lingua nambya (nome nativo chinambya) è una lingua bantu dell'Africa meridionale.



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