Ngoni language
| Ngoni | |
|---|---|
| Songea | |
| Chingoni | |
| Native to | Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi |
| Ethnicity | some Ngoni people |
Native speakers |
(170,000 in Tanzania cited 1987)[1] 53,000 in Mozambique (2006) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ngo |
| Glottolog |
ngon1269[2] |
N.12[3] | |
Ngoni is a Bantu language of Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi. It is one of several languages of the Ngoni people, who descend from the Nguni people of southern Africa, and the language is a member of the Nguni subgroup, with the variety spoken in Malawi sometimes referred to as a dialect of Zulu.[4][5] Other languages spoken by the Ngoni may also be referred to as "Chingoni": many Ngoni in Malawi, for instance, speak Chewa, and other Ngoni speak Tumbuka or Nsenga.
References
- ↑ Ngoni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngoni". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Miti, L. M. (1996) Subgrouping Ngoni varieties within Nguni: a lexicostatistical approach, SAJAL 16: 82–92.
- ↑ Gowlett, D. (2003) "Zone S" in The Bantu Languages (eds. Derek Nurse and Gerard Phillippson), p. 735.
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