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	Bemba language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bemba, also known as Chibemba and Ichibemba, is a Bantu language that is spoken primarily in Zambia but is also spoken in surrounding countries.
		Bemba is used as a lingua franca in Zambian cities and, according to Ethnologue, it "has higher social status than other languages except English" within Zambia.
		Bemba is also spoken, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Botswana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bemba (169 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bemba language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with native language biblical texts.
		Bemba is a language spoken by 5 to 6 million people in Zambia, and in bordering areas of Tanzania and Congo (DRC).
		Bemba is part of the Bantu language family (Guthrie's M.42), which consists of over 500 different languages throughout Central, Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bemba-language (449 words)

	Emory University: Linguistic Anthropology: Bemba A Linguistic Profile
		Dialects: Principal dialects are: Aushi, Bemba, Bisa, Chishinga, Kunda, Lala, Lamba, Luunda, Ng'umbo, Swaka, Tabwa, and Unga.
		Bemba was also selected by the colonial administration as one of the four main indigenous languages (along with Lozi, Nyanja, and Tonga) to be used in education and mass media.
		Bemba is one of the seven official Zambian languages (along with Kaonde, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, and Tonga).
	www.anthropology.emory.edu /FACULTY/ANTDS/Bemba/profile.html (2435 words)

	Info and facts on 'Bemba language' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bemba and its dialects are spoken and understood by a sizable percentage of the population of Zambia.
		Over three million people are estimated to be native Bemba speakers in Zambia alone, with others using Bemba as a second language.
		Bemba is also spoken, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960), Tanzania (A republic in eastern Africa), and Botswana (A landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/bemba_language.htm (99 words)

	Contact Languages in the Bantu Area
		Nonetheless, in both cases an indigenous language was adopted by exogenous populations who were kept on the margins and precluded by the circumstances of their immigration from participating in the regular lives of the natives.
		Many of their speakers are educated and experience the normal challenges of language contact in diglossic situations in which it is tolerated to mix the lower language with elements from the higher language, viz., English, French, or another European language, depending on the country.
		According to this, an exogenous language was appropriated by the local populations and others as a lingua franca and/or a vernacular and was restructured in the process.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/mufw_bantucon.html (6659 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Bemba in Zambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bemba are unlikely to engage in sustained protest or rebellion in the near future.
		It was considered a Bemba party despite the fact that Kaunda tried to hold the country together by de-emphasizing ethnic ties.
		Frederick Chiluba, a Bemba, was elected from the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD).
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=55101 (603 words)

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		There are about 30 sibs among the Bemba, and they are ranked according to status based on their relations with the royal crocodile sib.
		The kinship group to which a person constantly refers in everyday affairs is the lupwa, a bilateral group of near relatives on both sides of his family (i.e., a kindred), who join in religious ceremonies, matrimonial transactions, mortuary ritual, and inheritance.
		The average Bemba village is rather small in size, with 30 to 50 huts.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7831 (950 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bantu languages (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Bantu languages, group of African languages forming a subdivision of the Benue-Niger division of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian language family (see African languages).
		The most important is Swahili (see Swahili language), spoken as a first language by more than 30 million people, chiefly in Kenya, Tanzania, Congo (Kinshasa), and Uganda.
		As the chief trade language of E Africa, it is understood by perhaps an additional 20 million.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bantulan.html (447 words)

	Phrasebase - Bemba Language Facts And Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Town Bemba is a widely used lingua franca in urban, not rural areas, and it has higher social status than other languages except English.
		Bemba is recognized for educational and administrative purposes.
		DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Distinct from Bemba (IchiBemba) in southeastern Shaba Region, Zambia, and Tanzania; or Bembe (IBembe) in Kivu Province, Fizi Territory.
	www.phrasebase.com /languages/index.php?cat=436 (275 words)

	Bamba Font, Bamba OCR, Bamba Referensi, Bamba Sistim, Bamba Software - Windows,
		Bemba is one of the Bantu languages, most closely related to Luba, spoken in neighboring Zaire.
		Bemba has 1,850,000 speakers in Zambia and Congo (Kinshasa).Taabwa, with 250,000 speakers in Congo may regarded as a northern dialect of Bemba.
		The number of languages spoken on the African continent is estimated to be between six and eight hundred.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Indonesian/Languages/Bemba.htm (202 words)

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		List A alphabetizes the languages that are spoken by students of limited English proficiency in New York State school districts, and identifies the corresponding countries where those languages are spoken.
		Predominant native languages are Swahili (aka Kiswahili) and Luba.
		Bemba is the predominant native language, followed by Tonga and Nyanja (aka Chinyanja).
	www.emsc.nysed.gov /ciai/biling/pub/languages.html (1206 words)

	Emory University: Linguistic Anthropology: Bemba Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bemba is one of the eight official languages of Zambia.
		Due to the political and economic history of the Bemba people, and their relations to colonial and state power, 'the Bemba language' has become the cover term for what is technically a language/dialect continuum in Northern Zambia.
		A distinctly urban and 'modern' form of Bemba, known as Town Bemba, is spoken throughout the country, by people who are ethnically Bemba and by people who speak it as a second or third language (Spitulnik 1998).
	www.anthropology.emory.edu /FACULTY/ANTDS/Bemba (280 words)

	Bemba language - TheBestLinks.com - Botswana, Bantu, English language, Ethnologue, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bemba language - TheBestLinks.com - Botswana, Bantu, English language, Ethnologue,...
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		Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bemba.html (219 words)

	Bemba
		The Bemba are the largest ethnic group in the Northern Province of Zambia.
		Since the Bembas are the most dominant group, Bemba is the most common language that is spoken.
		The Bemba have about forty clans and marriage in the same clan is not allowed.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/bemba.html (1088 words)

	I love U in all languages..
		Dusun -> language spoken by the Dusun tribe, one of the largest in North Borneo Dutch -> language spoken in the Netherlands and the provinces of East- and West-Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg, and Flemmish-Brabant, Belgium Esperanto -> The International Language.
		Kpele -> language spoken in Africa Lao -> language spoken in Laos and by the Laotian people living in northern Thailand Luo -> language spoken in Kenya Luxembourgish -> language spoken in Luxembourg and in the border areas in Belgium (Arlon), France (Thionville), and Germany.
		Maa -> language spoken in Africa Malayalam -> language spoken in the state of Kerala, India Maltese -> language spoken on Malta, a small independent island in the Mediterranean Sea south of Italy with around 400,000 inhabitants.
	www.mclink.it /personal/MC4491/tiamo.htm (573 words)

	Spitulnik keeps Bemba language alive on the web
		Although Bemba is spoken by 5 to 6 million people in Zambia and bordering countries, much of the world's population has never even heard of the language--much less heard it spoken.
		About 20 different languages and 73 different dialects are spoken in Zambia, and the average Zambian speaks three languages, she said.
		Although English is the country's official language, Bemba is one of seven other nationally recognized Zambian languages and is spoken by more than 50 percent of the population.
	www.emory.edu /EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1999/February/erfebruary.1/2_1_99spitulnik.html (575 words)

	Bemba Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
		Bemba belongs to the Bemba Group (Guthrie 1942) of Bantu and is spoken in the Northern, Luapula, Copperbelt, and Northwestern Central provinces of Zambia, as well as in southeastern Zaire.
		Bemba is a national (official) language in Zambia and is widely used as a lingua franca, especially in urban areas, in Copperbelt Province, and in radio broadcasts.
		These (entitled Zambia Languages Orthography, by S. Chimuka, 1976) have been published by the Zambian Ministry of Education and Culture as part of a project to standardize the orthography of Zambian languages.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Bemba-root.html (345 words)

	Anglican and Global Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a member of the Bantu family of languages here in Africa, there are very few parallels between Bemba and the European languages such as English or French with which I am familiar.
		Bemba classes began on 14th July, but for the first month my six companion students and I only had two hour sessions three days a week since we were engaged in other orientation activities.
		When learning a language it can take years to acquire fluency, so even at the conclusion of this brief course I will be very much a beginner.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /1649_22033_ENG_Print.html (868 words)

	Funding a Language Recording (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Language recording sponsorship is a great way to enrich the spiritual life of your congregation.
		Her story helped impress on the entire congregation the potential impact of a people hearing the New Testament in their own language and the church decided to sponsor a recording in the Bemba language of Zambia.
		A few even plan to be there when the Bemba hear God's Word in their language for the first time.
	www.fcbh.org /africanamerican/InternationalMissions/fund_language.htm (1060 words)

	Minority language and the state in Zambia and Botswana
		Language policy — even if appealing to ‘objective’ considerations of linguistic analysis, constitutional equity and socio-economic development — is often formulated and implemented in a political and ideological context partly defined by ethnic parameters.
		Meanwhile, throughout Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) of which Barotseland formed part, seven languages had come to be recognized by the state as vehicles of formal education, broadcasting, the judiciary, and state/subject interaction: Bemba, Tonga, Nyanja, Lozi (throughout Barotseland and in the region of Livingstone, the early colonial capital in the south), Lunda, Luvale and Kaonde.
		In Botswana, Kalanga is very much a minority language, in which no formal education is offered, which is not used in the media, practically not admissible for use in courts of law except in outlying villages, and with hardly any published material circulating in that language.
	www.shikanda.net /ethnicity/minority.htm (9590 words)

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		Barnes, B. and C. Doke (1929) The pronounciation of the Bemba language.
		Sharman, J. (1956) The tabulation of tenses in a Bantu language (Bemba: Northern Rhodesia).
		Yukawa, Y. (1988) (A tentative tonal analysis of Bemba verbs) in Japanese.
	www.albany.edu /~lb527/Bemba.html (386 words)

	African Languages - Bemba, Malagasy, Ruanda, Rundi (ASC)(MSU)
		Bemba is a national (official) language in Zambia and is widely used as a lingua franca, especially in urban areas,in Copperbelt Province, and in radio broadcasts.
		Malagasy belongs to the West Indonesian branch of Hesperonesian and is spoken in Madagascar.
		Malagasy is the national language of the Madagascar Republic.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language8.htm (358 words)

	Bemba language and culture
		FROM WIKIPEDIA Bemba, also known as Chibemba and Ichibemba, is a Bantu language that is spoken primarily in Zambia but is also spoken in surrounding countries.
		Bemba (M.42) Barnes, B. and C. Doke (1929) The pronounciation of the Bemba language.
		'Greetings everyone !' Bemba is a language spoken by 5 to 6 million people in Zambia, and in bordering areas of Tanzania and Congo (DRC).
	www.lonweb.org /link-bemba.htm (210 words)

	PanAfrLoc \| PanAfrLoc / Bemba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bemba (also Chibemba) belongs to the Bemba Group (Guthrie 1942) of Bantu.
		In addition to the four dialects of Bemba (Ngoma, Lomotua, Nwesi, and Lembue) there is "Town Bemba," which "is to be found everywhere in the (Zambian) copperbelt" (Heine 1970).
		Although Town Bemba is a lingua franca, derived from Bemba, Richardson (1981) believes it is justified to consider them different languages.
	www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Bemba (422 words)

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		Dutch -> language spoken in the Netherlands and the provinces
		language is spoken to the northwest of Lake Vdnern
	www.livejournal.com /community/wearelyk_so_hot (2070 words)

	#F# "I love you" in various languages
		Dhivehi -> language spoken in the Maldives and in the Minicoy Island of India Dusun -> language spoken by the Dusun tribe, one of the largest in North Borneo Dutch -> language spoken in the Netherlands and the provinces of East- and West-Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg, and Flemmish-Brabant, Belgium Esperanto -> The International Language.
		The idea was that each language has a different word for each concept, so if the concepts were numbered, automatic translation would be possible.
		Tugen is a subordinated tribe of the Kalinjin tribe.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/romance-faq/part3/section-1.html (1129 words)

	The Communication Initiative - DTR Radio Listening Clubs: Evaluation report - Influence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Of a sample of 328 respondents, in the outskirts of Lusaka and two different Bemba-speaking parts of the country, 54% were aware of the existence of the women's clubs, and 57% had heard some of the programmes.
		ZNBC is keen to see the project extended to other languages, and the producers have already participated in a DTR training workshop (with the NGO Women for a Change, for a six-month civic education project).
		One of these has worked on the project, and expressed to the evaluator her commitment to it; another, who has not been involved himself, was full of praise for the project and its impact.
	www.comminit.com /strategicthinking/stimpactpanos/sld-2201.html (1763 words)

	Life at Chilonga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bemba is the local language in Northern Zambia where we live.
		We have established this website to communicate with family and friends, as well as other people who may be interested in what is going on with us in this part of the world, particularly in regard to health care.
		Bemba is used as a lingua franca in Zambian cities and it "has higher social status than other languages except English" within Zambia.
	www.lifeatchilonga.org (280 words)

	Emory University: Linguistic Anthropology: Bemba Resources
		Bemba Introductory Course by Irvine Richardson with Mubanga E. Kashoki and Fidelis K. Kasonde.
		Kashoki, Mubanga E. Town Bemba: A Sketch of Its Main Characteristics.
		"Bemba Genres and Linguistic Varieties." Includes streaming audio of field interviews in Bemba, to accompany analysis in 1998 JLA article.
	www.linguistics.emory.edu /POLYGLOT/bemba_resources.html (358 words)

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