Kinga language
Appearance
Kinga | |
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Ekikinga | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Kinga, Magoma |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2003)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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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
- ^ Kinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Further reading
- Kähler-Meyer, Emmi (1969). "Gibt es sprachhistorische Beziehungen der Töne im Kinga (Tanzania)?". Ethnological and linguistic studies in honour of N. J. van Warmelo. Pretoria: Government Printer (South Africa). pp. 1–12.
- Philippson, Gérard (1991). Tons et Accent dans les Langues Bantu d'Afrique Orientale: Étude Comparative Typologique et Diachronique (PhD thesis) (in French). Université de Paris V - René 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-Universität.
- Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1969). "Die Sippen-Tabus der Kinga". Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 12: 34–41. doi:10.1163/157007369X00039. hdl:1887/8793.