Ikizu (''Ikikizu, Kiikiizo'') is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. T ...

spoken by the

Ikizu people The Ikizu (or Ikiizo) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mara Region in northern Tanzania. In 1987, the Ikizu population was estimated to number 28,000. They speak the Ikizu language Ikizu (''Ikikizu, Kiikiizo'') is a Bantu language ...

s of Tanzania. Dialects are Ikizu proper and Sizaki. Maho (2009) treats Sizaki (Shashi) as a separate language. However, '' Ethnologue'' 16th edition retired the ISO code for Sizaki, merging it into Ikizu.

Orthography

Ikizu uses the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and the ...

. It does not include the letters ''Q'', ''V'', or ''X''. The letters ''B'' and ''C'' are only used in the forms ''Bh'' and ''Ch''.

References

Sources

* Sewangi, Seleman S. (2008). ''Kiikiizo: Msamiati wa Kiikiizo–Kiingereza–Kiswahili na Kiingereza–Kiikiizo–Kiswahili / Ikiizo–English–Swahili and English–Ikiizo–Swahili Lexicon''. . {{Authority control Languages of Tanzania Great Lakes Bantu languages