The Lozi language is a lingua franca in Zambia.[citation needed] The largely interintelligible Manding languages of West Africa serve as lingua francas...
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Copperbelt), Nyanja (Lusaka and the Eastern Province), Lozi (Western Province), Tonga and Lozi (Southern Province), and Kaonde, Luvale and Lunda (Northwestern...
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Languages of Zimbabwe (section Lozi)
in 2000. Lozi, a Bantu language spoken primarily in southwestern Zambia, is spoken by roughly 70,000 Zimbabweans. There are over 30,000 Lozi/Rotsi speakers...
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chieftainship. Sometimes the succession followed Lozi custom as the Vambalango lived among the Lozi and tended to adopt Lozi customs. The second Mbunda Chiefs to...
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Kgalagadi language and the Lozi language. Setswana is an official language of Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It is a lingua franca in Botswana and...
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is a lingua Franca of the Caprivi Strip, especially in Katima Mulilo, where some residents speak Lozi, a language of western Zambia. as a lingua franca...
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in villages (including Linyanti), but may also speak the regional lingua franca, Lozi. The main dialect is called Shirwanga. A slight majority of Botswana...
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by that tribe. e.g. men of the Lozi tribe are called Ba-rotse (spelling is not standardized), and they speak Si-lozi; Bembas speak Chiwemba; Tswanas...
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Mozambique (Gitonga: S62). It is one of the major lingua francas in Zambia, together with Bemba, Lozi and Nyanja. There are two distinctive dialects of...
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Basubiya were agriculturists and as such proved easy prey for the growing Lozi Empire (from modern Zambia), which in turned collapsed in 1865. They still...
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