Lala language (South Africa)
Not to be confused with Lala language (Zambia).
| Lala | |
|---|---|
| Native to | South Africa |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog |
lala1263[1] |
S.406[2] | |
Lala is a Bantu language of South Africa, claimed to be extinct in some sources.[2] 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. Although it is a Tekela Nguni language, for sociological reasons it is often considered a dialect of Zulu (a Zunda 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.[3]
| Lala | Standard Zulu | Gloss |
|---|---|---|
| nilo | umlilo | fire |
| tiyomo | izinkomo | cattle |
| madi | amanzi | water |
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lala (Zulu)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ "A comparative phonological and morphological analysis of the North and South Lala dialects of Tekela Nguni" (PDF). University of South Africa (UNISA). 1999-12-01. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
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