Kwaya language

E917902

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

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Label Occurrences
Kwaya language canonical 1

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 NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
isRelatedTo Jita language NERFINISHED
Kara language (Tanzania) NERFINISHED
Ruri language NERFINISHED
isSpokenBy Kwaya people NERFINISHED
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Bantoid languages
Bantu languages
Benue–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo languages
languageGroup Suguti–Kwaya group NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Northeast Bantu languages NERFINISHED
region East Africa
spokenAround Lake Victoria NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mara Region NERFINISHED
Tanzania NERFINISHED
usedIn daily communication
folklore
local oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Kerewe language neighboringLanguage Kwaya language