Vinza language

Vinza
Native to Tanzania
Ethnicity Vinza
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 vin
Glottolog vinz1238[2]
JD.67[3]

Vinza is a Bantu language spoken by the Vinza people of Tanzania, approximately in the area of the town of Uvinza [4] It is closely related to the languages of Rwanda and Burundi, including the Ha language of the northeastern shores of Lake Tanganyika.

References

  1. Vinza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Vinza". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Margaret Arminel Bryan, The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press 1959. At that time there were about 5,000 speakers.


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