Kinga language
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Bantu language spoken in Tanzania
| Kinga | |
|---|---|
| Ekikinga | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Kinga, Magoma |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2003)[1] |
Niger-Congo?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zga |
| Glottolog | nucl1379 |
G.65[2] | |
Kinga is a Bantu language of the Kinga tribe in Tanzania. It is closely related to Magoma, but mutual intelligibility is low.
References
[edit]- ^ Kinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Further reading
[edit]- Kahler-Meyer, Emmi (1969). "Gibt es sprachhistorische Beziehungen der Tone im Kinga (Tanzania)?". Ethnological and linguistic studies in honour of N. J. van Warmelo. Pretoria: Government Printer (South Africa). pp. 1-12.
- Philippson, Gerard (1991). Tons et Accent dans les Langues Bantu d'Afrique Orientale: Etude Comparative Typologique et Diachronique (PhD thesis) (in French). Universite de Paris V - Rene Descartes. OCLC 490044838.
- Sanga, Edison (2018). Assessment of Language Endangerment in the Kinga Speech Community: Makete District --- Tanzania (MA thesis). University of Dodoma.
- Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1973). "Kinga: a restricted tone language". Studies in African Linguistics. 4 (1): 23-48.
- Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1971). Zur Lautstruktur des Kinga (Tanzania) (PhD thesis) (in German). Marburg: Philipps-Universitat.
- Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1969). "Die Sippen-Tabus der Kinga". Zeitschrift fur Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 12: 34-41. doi:10.1163/157007369X00039. hdl:1887/8793.
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