| West Kilimanjaro | |
| Nativename: | West Chaga |
| States: | Tanzania |
| Region: | Machame, Kilimanjaro Region |
| Ethnicity: | Chaga |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
| Fam4: | Bantoid |
| Fam5: | Southern Bantoid |
| Fam6: | Bantu |
| Fam7: | Northeast Bantu |
| Fam8: | Chaga–Taita |
| Fam9: | Chaga |
| Lc1: | jmc |
| Ld1: | Machame |
| Lc2: | rwk |
| Ld2: | Rwa |
| Glotto: | west2852 |
| Glottorefname: | West Kilimanjaro |
| Guthrie: | E.621 (ex-E.61,62a) |
West Kilimanjaro, or West Chaga, is a Bantu language of Tanzania spoken by the Chaga people.
There are several dialects:
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ |
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | ||||
| prenasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Lateral | glide | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| fricative | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||