For other uses, see Kamba language (disambiguation).
| Kamba | |
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| Kikamba | |
| Native to | Kenya, Tanzania |
| Region | Machakos, Kitui, Makueni and Shimba Hills |
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Native speakers
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3.9 million (2009 census)[1] 600,000 L2 speakers |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | kam |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: kam – Kamba dhs – Dhaiso (Thaisu) |
| Glottolog | east2749[2] |
E.55–56[3] |
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The Kamba /ˈkæmbə/[4] language, or Kikamba, is a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people of Kenya. It is spoken by 5,000 people in Tanzania (Thaisu).
The Kamba language has lexical similarities to other Bantu languages such as Kikuyu, Meru, and Embu.
In Kenya, Kamba is generally spoken in 4 out of the forty-seven Counties of Kenya. These counties are Machakos, Kitui, Makueni, and Kwale. The Machakos variety is considered the standard variety of the three dialects and has been used in the translation of the Bible.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ^ Kamba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dhaiso (Thaisu) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eastern Central Kenya Bantu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- Mwau, John Harun (2006). Kikamba Dictionary: Kikamba-English, Kikamba-Kikamba, English-Kikamba. ISBN 9966-773-09-6.
External links[edit]
- PanAfriL10n page on Kamba
- Ĩvuku ya Mboya kwa andũ Onthe Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Kamba, digitized by Richard Mammana
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