Totela language

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Totela
Echitotela
Region Zambia
Native speakers
 1,220 (2010 census) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ttl
Glottolog tote1238 [2]
K.41,411 [3]

Totela is a poorly described Bantu language of Zambia. Its classification is assumed rather than demonstrated.

Zambia republic in southern Africa

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa. It neighbours the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west. The capital city is Lusaka, and it is located in the south-central part of Zambia. The population is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the northwest, the core economic hubs of the country.

Maho (2009) classifies the nearby Totela of Namibia as a distinct but closely related language. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Totela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Totela". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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