Kwaya language

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The Kwaya language is a Bantu language spoken by the Kwaya people around Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kwaya language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
human language
natural language
country Tanzania
ethnicGroup Kwaya people NERFINISHED
glottologCode kway1241
glottologName Kwaya
hasAlternativeName Ekikwaya
KiKwaya
hasAncestor Proto-Bantu language
hasMorphology noun class system
hasPhonology tone language
hasTypology agglutinative language
hasWordOrder SVO
iso639-3Code kya
isPartOf Great Lakes Bantu languages
isRelatedTo Jita language
Kara language (Tanzania)
Ruri language
isSpokenBy Kwaya people NERFINISHED
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages
Bantoid languages
Bantu languages
Benue–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
languageGroup Suguti–Kwaya group
languageSubfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages
Northeast Bantu languages
linked to: Northeast Bantu
region East Africa
spokenAround Lake Victoria
spokenIn Mara Region
Tanzania
usedIn daily communication
folklore
local oral tradition
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kerewe language neighboringLanguage Kwaya language
Northeast Bantu hasMember Kwaya language