Lucazi
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Luchazi (Lucazi, Chiluchazi) is a Bantu language of Angola and Zambia. Luchazi is the principal language of the Ngangela Group. Ngangela is a term coined by the Vimbundu traders and missionaries in 18th century to describe the tribes occupying the area of eastern-central Angola.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Luchazi
- Language.nativename
- Chiluchazi
- Language.altname
- Ngangela
- Language.states
- Angola, Zambia
- Language.speakers
- 431,000
- Language.date
- 2010-2014
- Language.familycolor
- Niger-Congo
- Language.fam2
- Atlantic–Congo
- Language.fam3
- Benue–Congo
- Language.fam4
- Southern Bantoid
- Language.fam5
- Bantu (Zone K)
- Language.fam6
- Chokwe–Luchazi (K.10)
- Language.minority
- Angola (as "Nganguela" or "Ganguela")
- Language.iso3
- lch
- Language.lc1
- lch
- Language.ld1
- Luchazi
- Language.lc2
- nba
- Language.ld2
- Nyemba (Ngangela)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Chokwe–Luchazi
- Country
- Angola
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- writing system
- Latin script
- indigenous to
- Moxico Province
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Orthography
- Alphabet
- Letter combinations
- References
Luchazi (Lucazi, Chiluchazi) is a Bantu language of Angola and Zambia. Luchazi is the principal language of the Ngangela Group. Ngangela is a term coined by the Vimbundu traders and missionaries in 18th century to describe the tribes occupying the area of eastern-central Angola.
==Phonology== ===Consonants=== The following table displays all the consonants in Luchazi:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lucazi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.