Lenje language
{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in Zambia}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Lenje
|nativename=Chilenje
|states=Zambia
|speakers={{sigfig|128,000|2}}
|date=2010 census
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Benue–Congo
|fam4=Bantoid
|fam5=Bantu
|fam6=Botatwe
|dia1=Lukanga (Twa)
|iso3=leh
|glotto=lenj1248
|glottorefname=Lenje
|guthrie=M.61,611
}}
Lenje is a Bantu language of central Zambia. The Lukanga dialect is spoken by the Lukanga Twa Pygmies, fishermen of the Lukanga Swamp. Alternate names for the language are Chilenje, Chinamukuni, Ciina, Ciina Mukuni, Lengi, Lenji, and Mukuni.
References
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External links
- {{Cite book
| publisher = Clarendon Press
| last = Madan
| first = A.C.
| title = Lenje handbook; a short introduction to the Lenje dialect spoken in north-west Rhodesia
| location = Oxford
| access-date = 2014-05-04
| date = 1908
| url = https://archive.org/details/lenjehandbookas02madagoog
}}
- {{Cite web
| title = Tower of Babel in Lenje
| access-date = 2014-05-04
| url = http://www.omniglot.com/babel/lenje.htm
}}
- Rev. S. Luwisha, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150622153512/http://lubutocollections.org/items/show/36 Mukulilacoolwe]}}, Lubuto Library Special Collections, accessed May 4, 2014.
- Dorothea Lehmann, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150622153527/http://lubutocollections.org/items/show/55 Folktales from Zambia: Texts in six African languages and in English]}}, Lubuto Library Special Collections, accessed May 3, 2014.
- [http://www.language-archives.org/language/leh OLAC resources in and about the Lenje language]
{{Pygmy languages}}
{{Languages of Zambia}}
{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones J–M)}}
Category:Library of Congress Africa Collection related
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