Kunda language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Zambia
Not to be confused with Kunda language (Democratic Republic of Congo).
Kunda | |
---|---|
Cikunda | |
Native to | Zimbabwe, Zambia, into Mozambique |
Native speakers | 160,000 (2000)[1] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
|
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kdn |
Glottolog | kund1255 |
Guthrie code | N.42 [2] |
ELP | Kunda |
Pidgin Chikunda | |
---|---|
Native to | Mozambique |
Region | Zambezi River |
Extinct | (date missing)[2] |
Language family | Kunda-based pidgin |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
Guthrie code | N.40A [2] |
Kunda (Chikunda) is a Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Zambia, with a few thousand speakers in Mozambique.
There is an extinct pidgin Chikunda once used for trade.[2]
References[]
Further reading[]
- Zemba, Mercy (2015). "A grammatical sketch of Kunda Language". University of Zambia MA dissertation. (Description.)
Languages of Mozambique | |
---|---|
Official language |
|
Indigenous languages | |
Immigrant languages |
|
Sign languages |
|
Languages of Zambia | |
---|---|
Official language |
|
Regional languages |
|
Indigenous languages | |
Sign languages |
Languages of Zimbabwe | |
---|---|
Official languages |
|
Unofficial languages |
|
Immigrant languages |
|
Narrow Bantu languages (by Guthrie classification) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
Retrieved from ""
Categories:
- Languages of Zambia
- Languages of Mozambique
- Languages of Zimbabwe
- Nyasa languages
Hidden categories:
- Pages containing links to subscription-only content
- Language articles citing Ethnologue 18
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Language articles with unknown extinction date
- Languages without Glottolog code
- Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Guthrie code
- Languages with neither ISO nor Glottolog code