Zaramo language

Zaramo
Native to Tanzania
Region Pwani Region
Ethnicity 657,000 (2000)[1]
Native speakers
("few" cited 1991)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zaj
Glottolog zara1247[2]
G.33[3]

Zaramo is a Niger–Congo language, formerly the primary tongue of the Zaramo people of eastern Tanzania. Today there are very few speakers, as the Zaramo population mainly use Swahili instead. The language is also known as Zalamo, Kizaramo, Dzalamo, Zaramu, Saramo or Myagatwa.[4]

The New Testament was published in the language in 1975.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Zaramo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Zaramo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. 1 2 Ethnologue report for language code: zaj
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