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词条 Nambya language
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  1. Phonology

      Vowels  

  2. Morphology

  3. References

{{Infobox language
| name = Nambya
| nativename = Nanzva
| pronunciation =
| states = Zimbabwe, Botswana
| region =
| ethnicity = Nambya people
| speakers = 80,000-100,000
| date =
| ref = e18
| familycolor = Niger-Congo
| fam2 = Atlantic–Congo
| fam3 = Benue–Congo
| fam4 = Southern
| fam5 = Bantu
| fam6 = Kalanga (S.10)
| nation = Zimbabwe (both Kalanga and Nambya)
| lc1 = nmq
| ld1 = Nambya
| glotto = namb1291
| glottorefname = Nambya
}}

The Nambya language, or Nanzwa/Nanzva, is a Bantu language spoken by the Nambya people. It is spoken in northwestern Zimbabwe, particularly in the town of Hwange,[1][2] with a few speakers in northeastern Botswana. It is either classified as a dialect of the Kalanga language or as a closely related language.[3] The Zimbabwean constitution, in particular the Education Act, as amended in 1990, recognises Nambya and Kalanga as separate indigenous languages.[3]

Phonology

Nambya is a tonal language. It has a simple 5 vowel system and a typical Bantu consonant-vowel (CV) syllable structure. The language has onsetless syllables, but these are restricted to the word-initial position, making Nambya typical of the Southern Bantu languages.[3]

Vowels

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Morphology

Like many Bantu languages, Nambya has a highly agglutinative morphology.[3]

References

1. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xe59ZMZjEQYC&pg=PA55&dq=nambya+hwange&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDuqa086vTAhXlL8AKHUfwDJ0Q6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=nambya%20hwange&f=false|title=The Politics of Language and Nation Building in Zimbabwe|last=Ndhlovu|first=Finex|date=2009-01-01|publisher=Peter Lang|year=|isbn=9783039119424|location=|pages=54|language=en}}
2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=t6TsCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA220&dq=nambya+hwange&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDuqa086vTAhXlL8AKHUfwDJ0Q6AEIRzAI#v=onepage&q=nambya%20hwange&f=false|title=Language Planning in Africa: The Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe|last=Kamwangamalu|first=Nkonko|last2=Jr|first2=Richard B. Baldauf|last3=Kaplan|first3=Robert B.|date=2016-04-08|publisher=Routledge|year=|isbn=9781134916887|location=|pages=220|language=en}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol3no6/3.5SomeSegmental.pdf|title = Some Segmental Phonological Processes Involving Vowels in Nambya: A Preliminary Descriptive Account|last = Kadenge|first = Maxwell, D.Phil|date = March 2010|website =|archive-url =|archive-date =|dead-url =|access-date =}}
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