Lala-Bisa language
Not to be confused with Lala language (South Africa) or Bissa language.
Lala-Bisa | |
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Biza-Lala | |
Native to | Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | Copperbelt |
Native speakers |
350,000 in Zambia (2010)[1] unknown but smaller number in DRC |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
leb |
Glottolog |
lala1264 [2] |
M.51–53,521–522 [3] |
Lala-Bisa is a Bantu language of Zambia that is closely related to Bemba.
Swaka dialect is divergent, and sometimes classified as a separate language (Nurse 2003). Maho (2009) lists Biisa (Wisa), Lala, Ambo, Luano, and Swaka as distinct languages, with Ambo and Luano closest to Lala.
References
- ↑ Lala-Bisa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lala-Bisa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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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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