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Kamba
Kikamba
Native to
Kenya, Tanzania
Region
Machakos, Kitui, Makueni and Shimba Hills
Native speakers
 3.9 million (2009 census)[1]
600,000 L2 speakers
Language family

Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo

      • Southern Bantoid

        • Bantu

          • Northeast Bantu
            • Kikuyu–Kamba
              • South
                • Kamba
Language codes
ISO 639-2 kam
ISO 639-3 Either:
kam – Kamba
dhs – Dhaiso (Thaisu)
Glottolog
kam1297[2]
Guthrie code
E.55–56[3]

Kamba/ˈkæmbə/[4], or Kikamba, is a Bantu language that is spoken by the Kamba people of Kenya. It is also spoken by 5,000 people in Tanzania (Thaisu).


Kamba has lexical similarities to other Bantu languages such as Kikuyu, Meru and Embu.


In Kenya, Kamba is generally spoken in four counties: Machakos, Kitui, Makueni, and Kwale. The Machakos variety is considered the standard variety and has been used in translation.




Dance song. Male solo. Akamba. Machakos. 1911-12.




Dance song. Machakos. Akamba. 1911-12


The Swedish National Museums of World Culture holds field recordings of kamba language made by Swedish ethnographer Gerhard Lindblom in 1911-12.[5] Lindblom used phonograph cylinders to record songs along with other means of documentation in writing and photography. He also gathered objects, and later presented his work in The Akamba in British East Africa (1916).



References[edit]





  1. ^ Kamba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Dhaiso (Thaisu) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)


  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Central Kenya Bantu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


  4. ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh


  5. ^ "Historier från samlingarna | Newly digitized 100-year-old recordings bring African song and dance to life". samlingar.varldskulturmuseerna.se. Retrieved 2018-06-13.




Sources[edit]


  • Mwau, John Harun (2006). Kikamba Dictionary: Kikamba-English, Kikamba-Kikamba, English-Kikamba.
    ISBN 9966-773-09-6.


External links[edit]



  • PanAfriL10n page on Kamba


  • Ĩvuku ya Mboya kwa andũ Onthe Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Kamba, digitized by Richard Mammana














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