Ikizu language

Ikizu
Ikikizu
Native to Tanzania
Native speakers
55,000 (2005)[1]
Dialects
  • Sizaki
  • Ikizu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ikz
Glottolog ikiz1238[2]
JE.402,404[3]

Ikizu (Ikikizu, Kiikiizo) is a Bantu language spoken by the Ikizu peoples of Tanzania. Dialects are Ikizu proper and Sizaki. Maho (2009) treats Sizaki (Shashi) as a separate language. However, Ethnologue 16 retired the ISO code for Sizaki, merging it into Ikizu.

References

  1. Ikizu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ikizu". 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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