Alternate Names: Ikingonde, Ikinyakyusa, Ikinyikyusa, Kinyakyusa, Kinyakyusa-Ngonde, Konde, Kukwe, Mombe, Ngonde, Nkonde, Nyakusa, Nyekyosa, Nyikyusa, Sochile, Sokile, Sokili
Dialects: Kukwe (Ngumba), Mwamba (Lungulu, Sokelo), Ngonde, Nyakyusa (Nyekyosa), Selya (Kaaselya, Salya, Seria), Sukwa.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 805,000 in Tanzania (2006), increasing. Population total all countries: 1,105,000.
Language Use: Vigorous. Local non-Nykyusa speakers often learn Nyakyusa. Most domains and increasingly in politics. All ages. Positive attitudes.
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 0%. SIL has transition literacy work (Swahili to Nyakyusa). Dictionary. Bible: 1993–1996.
Typology: SVO; prepositions; noun head initial; noun classes; verbal affixation for subject, object, tense, aspect, mood and derivation; 18 consonant phonemes; 14 vowel phonemes; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Tanzania
Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.