Yauma dialect

Yauma
Spoken in	Angola
Native speakers	22,000  (date missing)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone K) Chokwe–Luchazi (K.10) Mbunda ? Yauma
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yax

The Yauma dialect is spoken in Angola and Zambia in the Kwando River area. The Ethnologue gives its family as "unclassified", an apparent error, as it notes that Yauma is "part of the Ngangela subgroup" of the Chokwe–Luchazi (K.10) Bantu languages. (It may be unclassified within that group.) Bantu-Languages.com describes it as a variety of Mbunda, also a K.10 Bantu language, citing Maniacky 1997.

Bibliography

• Maniacky Jacky, 1997 "Contribution à l'étude des langues bantoues de la zone K: analyse comparative et sous-groupements", Mémoire pour l'obtention du DEA de langues, littératures et sociétés, études bantoues, INALCO (Paris - France), 101p.

External links

• Map of Yauma speaking area from the LL-Map Project
• Information on Yauma language from the MultiTree Project