Ikizu language
| Ikizu | |
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| Ikikizu | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
Native speakers | 55,000 (2005)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| 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.
Orthography[]
Ikuzu uses the Latin alphabet. It does not include the letters Q, V, or X. The letters B and C are only used in the forms Bh and Ch.
References[]
- ^ Ikizu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ikizu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Sewangi, Seleman S. (2008). Kiikiizo: Msamiati wa Kiikiizo–Kiingereza–Kiswahili na Kiingereza–Kiikiizo–Kiswahili / Ikiizo–English–Swahili and English–Ikiizo–Swahili Lexicon. ISBN 9987691110.
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