Kwaya language

Kwaya
Native to Tanzania
Region Mara Region
Native speakers
120,000 (2005)[1]
Dialects
  • Kwaya
  • Ruri
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kya
Glottolog kway1241[2]
JE.251,253[3]

Kwaya is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Jita–Kara–Kwaya are close to being dialects; Maho (2009) separates Ruri from Kwaya as equally distinct.

References

  1. Kwaya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kwaya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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