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Lala Language (other)
Lala language may refer to: *Lala language (South Africa) Lala is a Bantu language of South Africa, claimed to be extinct in some sources. As of 1999, however, there were still a number of communities of speakers in the coastal regions of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Although it is a Te ... * Lala-Bisa language (Zambia) * Lala language (Papua New Guinea) * Lala-Roba language (Nigeria) * Laalaa language of Senegal {{dab ...
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Lala Language (South Africa)
Lala is a Bantu language of South Africa, claimed to be extinct in some sources. As of 1999, however, there were still a number of communities of speakers in the coastal regions of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Although it is a Tekela Nguni language, for sociological reasons it is often considered a dialect of Zulu (a Zunda Nguni language), whereas it differs quite markedly in phonology and to a degree in morphology, and with a large portion of its lexicon derived from Xhosa Xhosa may refer to: * Xhosa people, a nation, and ethnic group, who live in south-central and southeasterly region of South Africa * Xhosa language Xhosa (, ) also isiXhosa as an endonym, is a Nguni language and one of the official language ... (because of Xhosa-medium schooling in the old Natal South Coast) and the ''IsiZansi'' Tekela variety of the lower South Coast. References Languages of South Africa Nguni languages Endangered Niger–Congo languages {{Bantu ...
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Lala-Bisa Language
Lala-Bisa is a Bantu language of Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most central point. Its neighbours are t ... that is closely related to Bemba. Swaka dialect is divergent, and sometimes classified as a separate language (Nurse 2003). Maho (2009) lists Biisa (Wisa), Lala, Ambo, Luano, and Swaka as distinct languages, with Ambo and Luano closest to Lala. References Languages of Zambia Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sabi languages {{Bantu-lang-stub ...
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Lala Language (Papua New Guinea)
Lala, Nara, or Pokau is an Austronesian language of the central southern coast of the Papuan Peninsula in Papua New Guinea. This language is spoken in the villages of Oloi, Diumana, Ala'ala, Tubu, Kaiau and Vanuamae. A count in 2017 showed there to be about 3000 speakers with a current language status of developing, meaning that the language is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized form being used by some. According to ''Ethnologue'' the Lala language shares a 57% lexical similarity with the Toura language, and 47% with the Abadi language. Culture The coastal surroundings of this land allows for vegetable farms and plenty of animals to be hunted, the wallaby A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and som ... being one notable example. The coast is also utilized f ...
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Lala-Roba Language
Lala-Roba ( Gworam) is an Adamawa language of Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o .... Its name is a compound of two of its dialects, Lala (Lalla), Roba (Robba), and Ebode. Blench (2019) lists Lala, Roba, Ebode, and Yang as varieties. References Languages of Nigeria Bambukic languages {{AtlanticCongo-lang-stub ...
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