The ASJP Database - Wordlist Southern Ndebele

Wordlist Southern Ndebele

Compiled by Ann-Katrin Wett and Tessa de Mol-van Valen

No.	Meaning	Concepticon	Word	Loan

Glottocode: nort2795
ISO 639-3: nde

Coordinates WGS84

20°S, 29°E
-20.00, 29.00

number of speakers	1,642,000
status	alive

Classification

WALS: NC > Bantu
Glottolog: Atlantic Congo > Volta Congo > Benue Congo > Bantoid > Southernbantoid > Narrowbantu > Eastbantu > Southernbantu Makua > Nguni Tsonga > Nguni(s.40) > Southernndebele Lowland
Ethnologue: Niger Congo > Atlantic Congo > Volta Congo > Benue Congo > Bantoid > Southern > Narrowbantu > Central > S > Nguni(s.44)

Sources

Ownby 2007: Early Nguni history. Ann Arbor: UMI.
Skhosana 2009: The linguistic relationship between southern and northern Ndebele. Pretoria: University of Pretoria Ph.D. dissertation.