Zigula language

Spoken in

• Niger - Congo languages Bantu languages Zigula - Zaramo Zigula

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Zigula ( Chizigula or Kizigula ) is the language of the people of Zigula in the Tanga region in northeast Tanzania.

It belongs to the Bantu languages ​​and is closely related to the neighboring languages ​​Ngulu, Bondei, Shambaa, Doe and Kwere.

In Tanzania Zigula is spoken by about 355,000 people. Many of them also use the Swahili.

In Somalia, speaking descendants of Zigula who were deported as slaves there in the 19th century until today, the Zigula language, which is known there as Mushungulu (see also: Somali Bantu ). Estimates of the number of Zigula / Mushungulu spokesman in Somalia range for 1992, 20000-50000.