Zinza language explained

Zinza
Nativename:	Ecizinza
States:	Tanzania
Region:	Lake Victoria
Ethnicity:	Zinza
Date:	1987
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Niger-Congo
Fam2:	Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:	Volta-Congo
Fam4:	Benue–Congo
Fam5:	Bantoid
Fam6:	Southern Bantoid
Fam7:	Bantu
Fam8:	Northeast Bantu
Fam9:	Great Lakes Bantu
Fam10:	West Nyanza
Iso3:	zin
Glotto:	zinz1238
Glottorefname:	Zinza
Guthrie:	JE.23

Zinza (Dzinda) is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken on the southern shore of Lake Victoria.

Further reading

• Kulwa . Bahati . Assessment of Zinza Language Lexical Change: A Case of Kome Island Sengerema District . MA . University of Dodoma . 2016 . 20.500.12661/1127 . free.
• Odden . David . 2000 . The phrasal tonology of Zinza . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics . Walter de Gruyter . 21 . 1 . 45–76 . 10.1515/jall.2000.21.1.45.
• Book: Odom, Shannon Ronit . The Grammar Basics of Zinza . SIL International . 2016 . Dallas, Texas.
• Book: Rubanza, Yunus Ismail . Lizinza: msamiati wa Luzinza-Kiswahili-Kiingereza na Kiingereza-Luzinza-Kiswahili . Dept. of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam . 2008 . 9789987691104 . Languages of Tanzania . 8 . 433553465.
• Book: Rubanza, Yunus Ismail . Luzinza lexicon . Dept. of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Univ. of Dar es Salaam . 2008 . Languages of Tanzania . 9.