Zaramo language
Bantu language spoken in Tanzania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zaramo is a Niger-Congo language, formerly primary language of the Zaramo people of eastern Tanzania. Zaramo is also known as Zalamo, Kizaramo, Dzalamo, Zaramu, Saramo and, Myagatwa. The language is critically endangered. The ethnic population of the Zaramo people reaches about 200,000, yet there are only a few elderly speakers remaining.[3]
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Zaramo | |
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Kizaramo | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Region | Pwani Region |
Ethnicity | 657,000 Zaramo (2000)[1] |
Native speakers | 293,000 (2009)[1] |
Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zaj |
Glottolog | zara1247 |
G.33 [2] | |
ELP | Zaramo |
These speakers are mostly located in the villages surrounding the city of Dar es Salaam. Zaramo is thought to be passed down matrilineally to the children in these villages, while it remains critically endangered in the city.[4]
There are very few translations of the language in existence except for a few native speakers' documented translations, and the publication of the New Testament from 1975.