| Sambaa | |
|---|---|
| kisambaa | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Shambaa |
Native speakers | 660,000 (2001)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ksb |
| Glottolog | sham1280 |
G.23[2] | |
SambaaorShambaaorShambala is a Bantu languageofTanzania.
Sambaa, also Kisambaa, (ki)Shambaa, (ki)Shambala is spoken by the Shambaa in the Usambara mountains in the Lushoto District and Muheza District, Tanga Region, of northern Tanzania. Some dialectal variation exists between the language as spoken in the area around Lushoto and the areas around Mlalo and Mtae, possibly also between the Shambaa of the Western Usambara Mountains and the Eastern Usambara Mountains.
Five vowels are noted as [i, ɛ, a, ɔ, u].
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| vl. prenasal | ᵐ̥p | ⁿ̥t | ᵑ̊k | |||
| vd. prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮɟ | ᵑɡ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | h | |
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
The diacritics within prenasal voiceless plosives are devoiced as [ᵐ̥ ⁿ̥ ᵑ̊].[3]
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