Kinga

ZGA

vigorous

Alternate Names: Ekikinga, Kikinga

Dialects: Kinga, Mahanji.

Genealogy:

Niger-Congo
Atlantic-Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue-Congo
Bantoid
Southern
Narrow Bantu
Central
G
Bena-Kinga (G.65)

Demographics: 140,000 (2003). 57,000 in Makete District.

Language Use: Vigorous. Home. All ages. Positive attitudes. Also use Swahili [swh].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 0%. Grammar. NT: 1961.

Typology: SVO; prepositions; noun head initial; noun classes; verbal affixation for subject, object, tense, aspect, mood, and derivation; tonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Tanzania

Other Comments: Christian.