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Publication details [#67025]

Sithole, Emmanuel. 2019. Is Ndau a Dialect of Shona? Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 50 (2) : 29–49.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language | language status | language variety | mutual intelligibility

Language as a subject

Ndau

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

The current Zimbabwean Constitution (2013) officially ended Ndau's status as a dialect of Shona by recognising it as a separate language, despite existing similarities between the two varieties.