Amba language (Bantu)
Not to be confused with Amba language (Solomon Islands) or Ambo language.
| Amba | |
|---|---|
| Kwamba | |
| Native to | Uganda, DR Congo |
Native speakers | 40,000 (2002)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
rwm |
| Glottolog |
amba1263[2] |
D.22[3] | |
| Vamba | |
|---|---|
| Native to | DR Congo |
| Region | Ruwenzories–Kivu |
| Extinct | (date missing)[3] |
|
Amba-based pidgin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
D.20B[3] | |
Amba (also spelled Bulebule, Hamba, Humu, Kihumu, Ku-Amba, Kuamba, Lubulebule, Lwamba, Ruwenzori Kibira, and Rwamba) is a language spoken in parts of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Amba people. The Amba people call it Kwamba and it is known as Kihumu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Amba has a 70% lexical similarity with Bera. Dialects include Kyanzi (Kihyanzi) and Suwa (Kusuwa).
There was once an Amba pidgin called Vamba, now extinct.[3]
References
- ↑ Amba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Amba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 3 4 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
External links
| Official languages | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous languages |
| ||||||||||
| Official language | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indigenous languages (by province) |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sign languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/13/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.