Lala | |
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Native to | South Africa |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | lala1263 |
S.406 [1] |
Lala is a Bantu language of South Africa, claimed to be extinct in some sources.[1] As of 1999, however, there were still a number of communities of speakers in the coastal regions of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.[citation needed] Although it is a Tekela Nguni language, for sociological reasons it is often considered a dialect of Zulu (aZunda Nguni language), whereas it differs quite markedly in phonology and to a degree in morphology, and with a large portion of its lexicon derived from Xhosa (because of Xhosa-medium schooling in the old Natal South Coast) and the IsiZansi Tekela variety of the lower South Coast.[2]
Lala | Standard Zulu | Gloss |
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nilo | umlilo | fire |
tiyomo | izinkomo | cattle |
madi | amanzi | water |
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