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Lozi, also known as siLozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language of the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages branch
of Zone S (S.30), that is spoken by the Lozi people, primarily in southwestern Zambia and in surrounding countries. This language
is most closely related to Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa), Tswana (Setswana), Kgalagari (SheKgalagari) and Sotho (Sesotho/Southern
Sotho). Lozi and its dialects are spoken and understood by approximately six percent of the population of Zambia. Silozi is
the autoglottonym or name of the language used by its native speakers as defined by the United Nations. Lozi is the heteroglottonym.
The Lozi language developed from a mixture of two languages: Luyana and Kololo. The Luyana people originally migrated south
from the Luba-Lunda empire in the Katanga area of the Congo River basin, either late in the 17th century or early in the 18th
century. The language they spoke, therefore, was closely related to Luba and Lunda. They settled on the floodplains of the
upper Zambezi River in what is now western Zambia and developed a kingdom, Barotseland, and also gave their name to the Barotse
Floodplain or Bulozi. The Kololo were a Sotho people who used to live in what is now Lesotho. The Kololo were forced to flee
from Shaka Zulu's Mfecane during the 1830s. Using tactics they had copied from the Zulu armies, the Kololo conquered the Luyana
on the Zambezi floodplains and imposed their rule and language. However, by 1864 the indigenous population revolted and overthrew
the Kololo. By that time, the Luyana language had been largely forgotten; the new hybrid language is called Lozi or Silozi
and is closer to Sesotho than to any other neighbouring languages in Zambia. Lozi is also spoken in Zimbabwe, Botswana, and
Namibia. |
Names (more)[af] Lozi[am] ሎዚኛ [ar] اللوزي [az] lozi dili [bn] লোজি [bs] lozi [br] lozi [bg] лози [ca] lozi [cs] lozština [cy] Lozi [da] Lozi [de] Lozi [el] Λόζι [en] Lozi language [et] lozi [eu] Loziera [fa] لوزیایی [fi] lozi [fr] Lozi [gl] Lozi [gu] લોઝી [he] לוזי [hi] लोज़ी [hr] lozi [hu] lozi [id] Lozi [is] lozi [it] lozi [ja] ロジ語 [kn] ಲೋಝಿ [ks] لوزی [ko] 로지어 [lo] ໂລຊິ [lv] lozu [lt] lozi [ml] ലോസി [mr] लोझि [mk] лози [mt] Lożi [nl] Lozi [nn] lozi [nb] lozi [no] Lozi [or] ଲୋଜି [pl] Język lozi [pt] Língua lozi [rm] lozi [ro] lozi [ru] лози [sk] lozi [sl] lozi [es] Idioma lozi [sr] Лози [sw] Kilozi [sv] Lozi [ta] லோசி [te] లోజి [th] โลซิ [tr] Lozi [uk] лозі [ur] لوزی [vi] Tiếng Lozi [zu] Isi-Lozi |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-2B : lozISO 639-2T : loz ISO 639-3 : loz Linked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lozhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:loz http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/loz More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: lozFreebase ISO 639-3 : loz GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |