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Nyakyusa, or Nyakyusa-Ngonde, is a Bantu language of Tanzania and Malawi spoken by the Nyakyusa people around the northern end of Lake Malawi. There is no single name for the language as a whole; its dialects are Nyakyusa, Ngonde (Konde), Kukwe, Mwamba (Lungulu), and Selya (Salya, Seria) of Tanzania. Disregarding the Bantu language prefixes Iki- and Ki-, the language is also known as Konde ~ Nkhonde, Mombe, Nyekyosa ~ Nyikyusa, and Sochile ~ Sokili.

Nyakyusa
Ngonde
Native to	Tanzania, Malawi
Ethnicity	Nyakyusa
Native speakers	1,359,000 (2009-2016)[1] (including Sukwa)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Rukwa Rungwe Nyakyusa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nyy
Glottolog	nyak1260
Guthrie code	M.31[2]
Linguasphere	99-AUS-v incl. inner units & varieties 99-AUS-va...-vd

Sukwa is often listed as another dialect; however, according to Nurse (1988) and Fourshey (2002), it is a dialect of Lambya.

In Malawi, Nyakusa and Kyangonde are spoken in the northern part of Karonga District, on the shore of Lake Malawi, close to the border with Tanzania, while Nkhonde is spoken the centre of the district, including in the town of Karonga.[3]

According to the Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi, carried out by the Centre for Language Studies of the University of Malawi, "Nyakyuska, though spoken by very few people, mainly at Iponga in Sub T/ A Mwakawoko’s area, is regarded as the parent language from which Kyangonde and Chinkhonde originated. Kyangonde, on the other hand, is regarded as the most prestigious and standard language/dialect of the district. ... Chinkhonde is seen as a dialect of Kyangonde which has been heavily influenced by Citumbuka."[4]

The same Survey contains a folktale (the Tortoise and the Hare) in Chinkhonde and other languages of Northern Malawi, as well as some comparative vocabulary.[5]

Below is the Tortoise and the Hare folktale in Chinkhonde.

Sample text from Bible

Mwalululu, Yehova ikwisa kutwabula ku nifwa, kangi inifwa yitisa kuyako bwila na bwila!

Translation

Very soon, Jehovah will free all humans from death, and death will be gone forever!

Writing system

Nyakyusa Alphabet (used in the Teti magazine)[7]

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Nyakyusa Alphabet (Felberg)[8]

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Nyakyusa Alphabet (SIL)[9]

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mb

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Further reading

Bastian Persohn (2017). The Verb in Nyakyusa: A focus on tense, aspect, and modality. Berlin: Language Science Press. http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/141. ISBN 978-3-96110-014-9 . DOI 10.5281/zenodo.926408. Open Access.

References

На других языках

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[de] Nyakyusa-Ngonde

Nyakyusa-Ngonde (Eigenbezeichnung in Tansania Ikinyakyusa, in Malawi Ikingonde; ohne Klassenpräfix Nyakyusa, Ngonde, Konde) ist eine Bantusprache und die Sprache des Volkes der Nyakyusa. Sie gehört zur Guthrie-Zone M31.

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- [en] Nyakyusa language

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[fr] Nyakyusa (langue)

Le nyakyusa-ngonde, aussi appelé nyakyusa ou ngonde, est une langue bantoue parlée par la population nyakyusa et ngonde en Tanzanie et au Malawi.

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