Kamba language
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| Kamba | |
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| Kikamba | |
| Native to | Kenya, Tanzania |
| Region | Machakos, Kitui, Makueni, and Shimba Hills |
| Ethnicity | Akamba |
Native speakers | 4.6 million (2019 census)Template:Ethnologue28 does not exist 600,000 L2 speakers |
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| ISO 639-2 | Template:ISO 639-2 |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:kam – Kambadhs – Dhaiso |
| Glottolog | kamb1297 |
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Kamba/ˈkæmbə/,[2] or Kikamba, is a Bantu language spoken by millions of Kamba people, primarily in Kenya, as well as thousands of people in Uganda, Tanzania, and elsewhere. In Kenya, Kamba is generally spoken in four counties: Machakos, Kitui, Makueni, and Kwale. The Machakos dialect is considered the standard variety and has been used in translation. The other major dialect is Kitui.[3]
Kamba has lexical similarities to other Bantu languages such as Kikuyu, Meru, and Embu, of whom together they form the GEMA community.
The Swedish Museum of World Culture holds field recordings of the Kamba language made by Swedish ethnographer Gerhard Lindblom in 1911–12.[4] Lindblom used phonograph cylinders to record songs along with other means of documentation in writing and photography. He also gathered objects, and later presented his work in The Akamba in British East Africa (1916).
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Close-mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː | |
| Open | a aː |
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | (b) | t (d) | k (ɡ) | |||
| Affricate | tʃ (dʒ) | |||||
| Fricative | β | ð | s (z) | |||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ŋ | ||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | labial | ɥ | w | |||
| central | (ð̞) | j | ||||
- /tʃ/ occurs as a result of palatalization among /k/ before /j/.
- In post-nasal positions, sounds /t, k, s, tʃ/ then become voiced as [d, ɡ, z, dʒ]. The voiced fricative /β/ then becomes a voiced stop [b] in post-nasal position.
- The palatal glide sound /j/ is typically articulated to the front of the mouth, so that is interdental as [ð̞] or alveolo-palatal as [j̟]. When preceding a consonant however, it is always heard as a regular palatal glide [j].[5]
References
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- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yasutoshi Yukawa (1984-08-25). "On the Nature of the Accent of Kamba Nouns". Senri Ethnological Studies. 15: 131.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Historier från samlingarna | Newly digitized 100-year-old recordings bring African song and dance to life". samlingar.varldskulturmuseerna.se. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roberts-Kohno, Rosalind R. (2000). Kikamba Phonology and Morphology. Ann Arbor: UMI.
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Sources
- Mwau, John Harun (2006). Kikamba Dictionary: Kikamba-English, Kikamba-Kikamba, English-Kikamba. Template:ISBN.
External links
- PanAfriL10n page on Kamba
- Ĩvuku ya Mboya kwa andũ Onthe Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Kamba, digitized by Richard Mammana
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