Sena Native to Mozambique , Malawi Ethnicity Sena Native speakers
1.6 million (2001–2006)[1] Language family
Dialects
Official language in
Zimbabwe (as 'Chibarwe')Recognised minority language in
Malawi
ISO 639-3 Variously:seh
– Mozambiquean Senaswk
– Malawian Senabwg
– Barwe Glottolog nucl1396
Nuclear Sena mala1475
Malawi Sena barw1243
Barwe Guthrie code
N.44,441 (N.45,46)
[2] Linguasphere 99-AUS-xi incl. varieties 99-AUS-xia...-xic; also 99-AUS-xj (chi-Rue) & 99-AUS-xm (chi-Podzo)
A speaker of Barwe, a dialect of the Sena language. Portuguese is also spoken in this video.
Sena is a Bantu language spoken in the four provinces of central Mozambique (Zambezi valley): Tete , Sofala , Zambezia and Manica . There were an estimated 900,000 native Sena speakers in Mozambique in 1997, with at least 1.5 million if including those who speak it as a second language . It is one of the Nyasa languages .
Sena is spoken in several dialects, of which Rue (also called Barwe or Cibalke) and Podzo are divergent. The Sena of Malawi may be a distinct language. Barwe (Chibarwe) has official recognition in Zimbabwe .
Some remarks on Sena tenses can be found in Funnell (2004),[3] Barnes & Funnell (2005)[4] and in Kiso (2012).[5]
References [ ]
^ Mozambiquean Sena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)Malawian Sena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)Barwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
^ Funnell, Barry J. (2004)."A Contrastive Analysis of Two Varieties of Sena". MA dissertation, University of South Africa; (Introduction )
^ Barnes, Lawrie; Funnell, Barry (2005) "Exploring the cross-border standardisation of Chisena" . Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa. Vol. 36.
^ Kiso, Andrea (2012), "Tense and Aspect in Chichewa, Citumbuka, and Cisena" . Ph.D. Thesis. Stockholm University.
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