Zanaki language

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The Zanaki language is a Bantu language spoken by the Zanaki people of northern Tanzania, known for being the mother tongue of former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Julius Nyerere 0
Zanaki people 0

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
ethnic group
human
natural language
belongsToBranch Northeast Bantu languages NERFINISHED
belongsToGroup Great Lakes Bantu languages NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Tanzania
Tanzania
endangeredStatus vulnerable
grammaticalType agglutinative language
hasAlternativeName Ikizanaki NERFINISHED
Kizanaki
hasLinguisticFeature concordial agreement
noun class system
rich verbal morphology
hasNotableSpeaker Julius Nyerere NERFINISHED
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3Code zak
languageFamily Bantu
motherTongue Zanaki language NERFINISHED
positionHeld President of Tanzania NERFINISHED
region Mara Region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Zanaki people NERFINISHED
spokenByEthnicGroup Zanaki NERFINISHED
spokenIn Tanzania NERFINISHED
northern Tanzania
subfamily Niger–Congo languages NERFINISHED
usedIn daily communication among Zanaki people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Kerewe language neighboringLanguage Zanaki language