Concept information
Preferred term
lamLamba
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Lamba is a language found in Zambia. It is related to Bemba and is commonly spoken in the Copperbelt. There are about 210,000 native speakers in the northern parts of Zambia and southern fringes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lamba is also spoken in Lusaka, mainly because many speakers have migrated there for jobs. Lamba is a Bantu language. (In fact, "mu ntu" means "one person" in Lamba and "ba ntu" means "two or more people".) Depending on who does the counting, Zambia has between 42 and 78 local languages besides English – see Languages of Zambia for further details. Some people might say Lamba is a dialect of Bemba. Though the two languages share many words, they are not as close as say Cockney and Haitian Creole are to English or French.
Entry terms
- Lamba language
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- lam
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- lam
ISO 639-3 code
- lam
Notation
- lam
In other languages
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lamba
French
-
Lamba
German
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Lamba-Sprache
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lamba
Italian
-
Portuguese
-
lamba
Spanish
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Lamba
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lam
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