Soli language

{{short description|Bantu language of southern Zambia}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Soli

|nativename=Chisoli

|states=Zambia

|speakers={{sigfig|34,100|2}}

|date=2010

|ref = e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu

|fam6=Botatwe

|iso3=sby

|glotto=soli1239

|glottorefname=Soli

|guthrie=M.62

}}

Soli is a Bantu language of Zambia. It is part of the Botatwe group, who live mainly in Lusaka province and Central Province together with the Tonga and Lenje people {{cite book |last1=Saidi |first1=Christine |title=Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa |date=2010 |publisher=University Rochester Press |isbn=978-1-58046-327-0 |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dQcIsFvkfwC |access-date=5 December 2019 |language=en}}