Zanaki language

{{Short description|Bantu language of Tanzania}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Zanaki

|nativename=

|states=Tanzania

|region=Mara Region, Musoma Rural District, Makongoro Division

|speakers=100,000

|date=2005

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu

|fam6=Northeast Bantu

|fam7=Great Lakes Bantu

|fam8=Logooli–Kuria (E.40)

|iso3=zak

|glotto=zana1238

|glottorefname=Zanaki

|guthrie=JE.44

}}

Zanaki (Ikizanaki) is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It is spoken by the Zanaki people of Musoma and was the first language of Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere,{{Cite book | last = Aydemir | first = Murat | title = Migratory settings | publisher = Rodopi | year = 2008 | pages = 102 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EERM7O3WBuEC&pg=PA102 | isbn =90-420-2425-9 }} son of the King Burito Nyerere (1860–1942).