Luyana language

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Luyana
Esiluyana
Spoken in  Zambia
 Namibia
 Angola
Region Okavango River
Native speakers 440,000  (no date)
Language family
Dialects
Mbowe
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lyn

Luyana (Luyaana), also known as Luyi (Louyi, Lui, Rouyi), is a Bantu language spoken by almost half a million people in Zambia and in discontinuous areas of Namibia and Angola. It appears to be an divergent lineage of Bantu.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bantu Classification, Ehret, 2009.



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