Lambya (Rambia) is a Bantu languageofTanzania and Malawi. In Northern Malawi it is spoken particularly in the Chitipa District.[3]
Lambya | |
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Ichilambya | |
Native to | Tanzania, Malawi |
Ethnicity | Lambya |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2009–2017)[1] |
Official status | |
Recognised minority | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | lai |
Glottolog | lamb1272 |
M.201,202 [2] |
Sukwa, once thought to be a dialect of Nyakyusa, is now considered to be a dialect of Lambya.[4] The University of Malawi Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi (2006), agreeing with this, found that the three languages Cilambya, Cindali, and Cisukwa form a single dialect group, although there are differences between them, especially between Cilambya and the other two. The examples below come in the order Lambya, Ndali, Sukwa:[5]
The Language Mapping Survey gives further vocabulary and also a short text (the Tortoise and the Hare) in all three dialects.[3] The Lambya version of the story goes as follows:
The story may be translated as follows:
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