Ndali language

Ndali
Chindali
Native to	Tanzania, Malawi
Ethnicity	Ndali
Native speakers	(220,000 cited 1987–2003)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Rukwa Rungwe Ndali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ndh
Glottolog	ndal1241[2]
Guthrie code	M.301[3]

Ndali, or Chindali, is a Bantu language spoken by an increasing population in southern Tanzania of 150,000 (1987) and in northern Malawi by 70,000 (2003).

Sukwa, or Chisukwa, spoken in the Misuku Hills of northern Malawi, is closely related to Ndali, and both languages are fairly close to Lambya.^[4]

For further information see Kershner (2001).^[5]

References

1. Ndali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ndali". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
4. The University of Malawi Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi (2006), p. 16.
5. Kershner, Tiffany (2001). "Imperfectivity in Chisukwa" in Explorations in African Linguistics: From Lamso to Sesotho, eds. Robert Botne and Rose Vondrasek, Bloomington: Indiana University Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 37–52.

External links

• Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi. University of Malawi Centre for Language Studies, 2006. Contains comparative vocabulary and a short text (the Tortoise and the Hare) in Chindali and other languages.
• Language Map of Northern Malawi
• Paper by Martin Walsh and Imani Swilla on South-West Tanzanian languages (2002)