Bemba language

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• Niger - Congo languages Benue - Congo languages Bantoide languages Bantu languages Bemba

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Bemba (also known as Chibemba, Wemba and IchiBemba ) is a Bantu language and the language of the people of the (Ba) Bemba.

It is mainly spoken in the Republic of Zambia and also in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Botswana. It is believed that more than three million people in Zambia Bemba have as their first language or they have learned as a foreign language. Bemba is in Zambian cities a kind of lingua franca and enjoys, according to Ethnologue, in Zambia a higher social status than other languages ​​, with the exception of English.

Bemba has a " high level language " is understood under which a whole language group is subsumed with their dialects. Below are the main dialects Ngoma, Lomotua, Nwesi and Lembue, but also subordinated as Aushi, Bisa, ChiMwanga, Chishinga, Kunda, Lala, Lamba, Luunda, Tabwa and more. These lists are very different, because every other dialects enumerates or omits.

A creole language Bemba ( ChiKoppabeluti ) developed in the 1940s in the Zambian Copperbelt.

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A word example of the application of Bemba is ubuntu, which means something like " kindness for humanity " is and has been chosen as the name for the Linux distribution Ubuntu.