Gweno language

Gweno
Kigweno
Native to Tanzania
Region North Pare Mountains, Kilimanjaro Region
Ethnicity 2,200 (2006)[1]
Native speakers
(older adults)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gwe
Glottolog gwen1239[2]
E.65[3]

Gweno is a Bantu language spoken in the North Pare Mountains in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. The people known as the Gweno (or more properly Asu[4]) are a Chaga ethnic and linguistic group. The language is today spoken mostly by older adults, with younger generations having shifted to Asu and Swahili.[1] Ethnologue considers Gweno to be moribund;[1] the Gweno stopped raising children to speak the language about 20 years ago.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gweno language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gweno". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. ↑ Phillipson, Gerard; Nurse, Derek. "Gweno, a little known Bantu language of Northern Tanzania" (PDF). CNWS Publications.
  5. ↑ Winter, Christoph (1992). "175 years of language shift in Gweno". In Brenzinger, Matthias. Language Death Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 285–298. ISBN 978-3-11-087060-2.

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