Kinga language

Kinga
Ekikinga
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Kinga, Magoma
Native speakers	150,000 (2003)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Bena–Kinga (G60) Kinga-Magoma Kinga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zga
Glottolog	nucl1379
Guthrie code	G.65[2]

Kinga is a Bantu language of the Kinga tribe in Tanzania. It is closely related to Magoma, but mutual intelligibility is low.

References

1. Kinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

Further reading

• Kähler-Meyer, Emmi (1969). "Gibt es sprachhistorische Beziehungen der Töne im Kinga (Tanzania)?". Ethnological and linguistic studies in honour of N. J. van Warmelo. Pretoria: Government Printer (South Africa). pp. 1–12.
• Philippson, Gérard (1991). Tons et Accent dans les Langues Bantu d'Afrique Orientale: Étude Comparative Typologique et Diachronique (PhD thesis) (in French). Université de Paris V - René Descartes. OCLC 490044838.
• Sanga, Edison (2018). Assessment of Language Endangerment in the Kinga Speech Community: Makete District --- Tanzania (MA thesis). University of Dodoma.
• Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1973). "Kinga: a restricted tone language". Studies in African Linguistics. 4 (1): 23–48.
• Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1971). Zur Lautstruktur des Kinga (Tanzania) (PhD thesis) (in German). Marburg: Philipps-Universität.
• Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1969). "Die Sippen-Tabus der Kinga". Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. 12: 34–41. doi:10.1163/157007369X00039. hdl:1887/8793.