Fipa language

Bantu language spoken in Tanzania

Fipa

Ichifipa
Native to| Tanzania
Ethnicity| Fipa people

Native speakers

| 200,000 (2002 census)[1]

Language family

Niger–Congo?

* Atlantic–Congo
* Benue–Congo
* Bantoid
* Bantu (Zone M)
* Rukwa
* Mbozi
* Mwika
* Plateau
* Fipa

Language codes
ISO 639-3| `fip`
Glottolog| `fipa1238`

Guthrie code

| `M.13`[2]

Fipa (Fipa: Ichifipa) is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It is spoken by the Fipa people, who live on the Ufipa plateau in the Rukwa Region of South West Tanzania between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Rukwa. The ethnic group of the Fipa people is larger than the group of Fipa language speakers. On the Tanzanian side, people who speak Mambwe-Lungu may identify as Fipa and consider their language to be a dialect of Fipa. Lungu and Mambwe are also spoken in Zambia where they are considered languages and their speakers are considered to be ethnic groups in their own right, although linguists consider Lungu and Mambwe to be dialects of a single language. There are three dialects: Milanzi (also referred to as IchiSukuuma), Kwa (Ichikwa) and Nkansi.

Maho (2009) classifies M.131 Kulwe (Kuulwe, no ISO code) as closest to Fipa. Otherwise the dialects are Milanzi (Fipa-Sukuma, Icisukuuma), South Fipa, Kandaasi (Icikandaasi), Siiwa (Icisiiwa), Nkwaamba (Icinkwaamba), Kwa (Icikwa), Kwaafi (Icikwaafi), Ntile (Icintile, Cile), Peemba (Icipeemba).

## Notes

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1. ^ Fipa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

## References

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* Labroussi, Catherine. 1998. Le couloir de lacs: Contributions linguistique à l’histoire des populations du sud-ouest de la Tanzanie. Doctoral Dissertation, INALCO.
* Labroussi, Catherine. 1999. Vowel systems and spirantization in S.W. Tanzania. In Bantu historical linguistics, ed. Jean-Marie Hombert and Larry M. Hyman, 335–377. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
* Struck, Bernhard. 1911. Die Fipasprache. Anthropos 6:951–994.
* Walsh, Martin T., and Imani N. Swilla. 2000. Linguistics in the corridor: A review of research on the Bantu languages of south-west Tanzania, north-east Zambia and north Malawi. Ms, Dar es Salaam.
* Whiteley, W. H. 1964. Suggestions for recording a Bantu language in the field. Tanganyika Notes and Records 62:1–19.
* Willis, Roy G. 1966. The Fipa and related peoples of south-west Tanzania and north-east Zambia. London: International African Institute.
* Willis, Roy G. 1968. The Fipa. In Tanzania before 1900, ed. Andrew Roberts, 82–95. Nairobi: East African Publishing House.
* Willis, Roy G. 1978. There was a certain man: Spoken art of the Fipa. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* Woodward, Mark, Anna-Lena Lindfors, and Louise Nagler. 2008. A sociolinguistic survey of the Fipa language community: Ethnic diversity and dialect diversity. SIL Electronic Survey Report, SIL International.

## External links

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* SIL sociolinguistic survey of the Fipa language community

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[J]D50|

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[J]E20|

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* [JE221 Rashi
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[J]E30|

* [J]E31a Gisu
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* [J]E33 Nyore
* [J]E34 Saamia
* [J]E35 Nyuli
* [JE341 Xaayo
* JE342 Marachi
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[J]E40|

* [J]E41 Logooli
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* [J]E43 Koria
* [J]E44 Zanaki
* [J]E45 Nata
* E46 Sonjo
* [JE401 Nguruimi
* JE402 Ikizu
* JE403 Suba/Suba-Simbiti
* JE404 Shashi
* JE405 Kabwa
* JE406 Singa
* JE407 Ware
* JE411 Idaxo
* JE412 Isuxa
* JE413 Tiriki
* JE431 Simbiti
* JE432 Hacha
* JE433 Surwa
* JE434 Sweta

[J]F20|

* [J]F21 Sukuma
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* [J]F23 Sumbwa
* [J]F24 Kimbu
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Zone K|

| K10|

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K20|

* K21 Lozi

K30|

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* K351 Mulonga
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* K353 Koma
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* K371 Kwandi

K40|

* K41 Totela
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Zone L|

| L10|

* L11 Pende
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L20|

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L50|

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L60|

* L61 Mbwera
* L62 Nkoya
* [L601 Kolwe
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Zone M|

| M10|

* M11 Pimbwe
* M12 Rungwa
* M13 Fipa
* M14 Rungu
* M15 Mambwe
* [M131 Kuulwe

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M20|

* M21 Wanda
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* M23 Nyiha
* M24 Malila
* M25 Safwa
* M26 Iwa
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* [M201 Lambya
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M30|

* M31 Nyakyusa
* [M301 Ndali
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M40|

* M41 Taabwa
* M42 Bemba
* [M401 Bwile
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M50|

* M51 Biisa
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* M53 Swaka
* M54 Lamba
* M55 Seba
* [M521 Ambo
* M522 Luano
* M541 Lima
* M542 Temba

M60|

* M61 Lenje
* M62 Soli
* M63 Ila
* M64 Tonga
* [M611 Lukanga Twa
* M631 Sala
* M632 Lundwe
* M633 Kafue Twa

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