Not to be confused with Sagala language (Tanzania).
Taita
Native to
Kenya
Ethnicity
Taita people
Native speakers
(370,000 cited 1992 – 2009 census)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Northeast Bantu
Chaga–Taita
Taita
Dialects
Daw'ida
Sagala
Kasigau
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Either: dav – Taita tga – Sagala
Glottolog
tait1249
Guthrie code
E.74,741[2]
ELP
Sagalla
Taita is a Bantu language spoken in the Taita Hills of Kenya. It is closely related to the Chaga languages of Kenya and Tanzania. The Saghala (Northern Sagala, Sagalla) variety is distinct enough to be considered a language separate from the Daw'ida and Kasigau dialects.[2]
Daw'ida and Saghala contain loanwords from two different South Cushitic languages, called Taita Cushitic, which are now extinct.[3] It is likely that the Cushitic speakers were assimilated fairly recently, since lateral obstruents in the loanwords were still pronounced as such within living memory. However, those consonants have now been replaced by Bantu sounds.[4]
The Taveta language was mistaken for Daw'ida by Jouni Maho in his (2009) classification of Bantu languages. However, it's a distinct language, lexically and grammatically closest to Chasu (Pare).
^Taita at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Sagala at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
^ abJouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
^Sommer, Gabriele (1992). "A survey of language death in Africa". In Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.). Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 392–394. ISBN 3110870606.
^Nurse, Derek (1988). "Extinct Southern Cushitic Communities in East Africa". In Bechhaus-Gerst, Marianne; Serzisko, Fritz (eds.). Cushitic-Omotic: Papers from the International Symposium on Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Cologne, January 6-9, 1986. Buske Verlag. p. 99. ISBN 3871188905.
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