Lamba is a language found in
Zambia and is commonly spoken in the
Copperbelt. There are about 210,000 native speakers in the northern parts of Zambia and southern fringes of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lamba is also spoken in
Lusaka
Lusaka (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about . , the city's population was ab ...
, mainly because many speakers have migrated there for jobs. Lamba 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.
The t ...
. (In fact, "mu ntu" means "one person" in Lamba and "ba ntu" means "two or more people".) Depending on who does the counting, Zambia has between 42 and 78 local languages besides
English – see
Languages of Zambia for further details.
Maho (2009) lists the Lima (''Bulima'') and Temba varieties as distinct languages.
References
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Languages of Zambia
Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sabi languages