Bemba
Sign in to saveAlso known as Chibemba, Bemba (Zambia), Bemba language, Cibemba, IchiBemba
Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people
Key facts
- Native to
- Zambia , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Tanzania
- Ethnicity
- Bemba , Bangweulu Batwa
- Native speakers
- (4.1 million cited 2000–2010 census)
- Language family
- Niger–Congo ? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu ( Zone M.40–50 ) Sabi South Sabi Bemba
- Dialects
- Town Bemba
- Writing system
- Latin ( Bemba alphabet ), Bemba Braille
- Official language in
- Zambia
- Iso 639 2
- bem
- Iso 639 3
- bem
- Glottolog
- bemb1257
- Guthrie code
- M.42
- Linguasphere
- 99-AUR-r ichiBemba + ichiLamba incl. 24 inner languages 99-AUR-ra...-rx + varieties 99-AUR-rca...-rsb
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Encyclopedic overview
A speaker of the Bemba, recorded in Zambia.
Bemba (also known as Zambian or natively known as Chibemba, Ichibemba and Chiwemba), is a Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bemba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.