Aushi language
Aushi, known by native speakers as Ikyaushi, is a Bantu language primarily spoken in the Lwapula Province of Zambia and the (Haut-)Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although many scholars argue that it is a dialect of the closely related Bemba, native speakers insist that it is a distinct language. Nonetheless, speakers of both linguistic varieties enjoy extensive mutual intelligibility, particularly in the Lwapula Province.
| Aushi | |
|---|---|
| Ikyaushi | |
| Native to | Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Region | Luapula |
Native speakers | 100,000 in Zambia (2010 census)[1] widespread as L2 in DR Congo |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | auh |
| Glottolog | aush1241 |
M.402[2] | |
References
- Aushi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Further reading
- Bickmore, Lee. 2018. "Contrast Reemergence in the Aushi Subjunctive." Africana Linguistica, 24: 123-138.
- Doke, Clement Martyn. 1933. "A Short Aushi Vocabulary." Bantu Studies 7(1): 284-295.
- Ilunga, Nkimba Kafituka. 1994. Les Formes Verbales de l’Ikyaushi, M42b. Unpublished MA thesis. Institute Supérieur Pédagogique de Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Kankomba and Twilingiyimana. 1986. "M421 Aushi." Tervuren, Belgium: Annales, Sciences Humaines, Royal Museum for Central Africa.
- Spier, Troy E. 2020. A Descriptive Grammar of Ikyaushi. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University, USA.
- ———. 2021. "Four Trickster Tales in Ikyaushi." World Literature Today, Autumn: 68-71.
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