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Bemba, ChiBemba (also Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba and Chiwemba), is a Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups.
Town Bemba is an innovative variety of the Bemba language spoken among migrant populations in central Zambia. It developed in the mines and mining towns, where it replaced the earlier, and foreign, Fanagalo .
Zambian Braille is any of several braille alphabets of Zambia.It has been developed for the languages Bemba, Chewa, Lozi, Kaonde, Lunda, Luvale, and Tonga.. It is based on the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet used for Grade-1 English Braille, so the print digraph ch is written as a digraph ⠉ ⠓ in braille as well.
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It is broadly spoken within Zambia, a popular language of urban areas, and considered the most widely spoken indigenous language of Zambia. The Bemba people are recognized as descendants of the Luba Kingdom, an empire that occupied the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo and north-eastern Zambia from the late 16th century to ...
The Bemba language (Ichibemba) is most closely related to the Bantu languages Kiswahili in East Africa, Kaonde in Zambia and the DRC, Luba in the DRC, and Nsenga and Chewa in Zambia and Malawi. In Zambia, Bemba is primarily spoken in the Northern, Luapula, and Copperbelt Provinces. It is not an indigenous language in the Copperbelt region.
The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.
Bemba, a dialect of the Buyu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; People. Jeannot Bemba Saolona (1941–2009), Congolese businessman, ...