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Kunda language

Kunda (Chikunda) is a Bantu language of Zimbabwe, with some thousands of speakers in Zambia and Mozambique.

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Kunda
Cikunda
Native toZimbabwe, Zambia, into Mozambique
EthnicityAkunda
Native speakers
(160,000 cited 2000)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3kdn
Glottologkund1255
N.422
ELPKunda
Pidgin Chikunda
Native toMozambique
RegionZambezi River
Extinct(date missing)2
Kunda-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
N.40A2

Kunda (Chikunda) is a Bantu language3 of Zimbabwe, with some thousands of speakers in Zambia and Mozambique.

There is an extinct pidgin Chikunda once used for trade.2

References

References

  1. Kunda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Kunda". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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