Ilwana language
Ilwana | |
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Malakote | |
Kiwilwana | |
Native to | Kenya |
Region | Tana River District |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2009 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mlk |
Glottolog |
ilwa1237 [2] |
E.701 [3] |
Ilwana (Kiwilwana), or Malakote, is a minor Bantu language of Kenya. Arends et al. state that it is a mixed language from ca. 1650 of Bantu Ilwana and Cushitic Oromo.[4]
References
- ↑ Ilwana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ilwana". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Arends, Muysken, & Smith (1995), Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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