This article is about the Bantu language. For the Lama language spoken by the Lamba people of Togo, see Lama language.
Lamba
Ichilamba
Native to
Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region
Copperbelt
Ethnicity
Lamba people
Native speakers
200,000 in Zambia (2010 census)[1] unknown but smaller number in DRC
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu
Botatwe
South
Lamba
Language codes
ISO 639-2
lam
ISO 639-3
lam
Glottolog
lamb1271
Guthrie code
M.54,541,542[2]
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, mainly because many speakers have migrated there for jobs. Lamba is a Bantu language. (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.
^Lamba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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