Chisukwa

language
name=Chisukwa
nativename=Chisukwa
familycolor=Niger-Congo
states=Malawi
region=Misuku Hills
speakers=~1000
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=Benue-Congo
fam5=Bantoid
fam6=Southern Bantoid
fam7=Narrow Bantu

Chisukwa is a Bantu language spoken in northern Malawi, in the Misuku Hills region. The language is critically endangered, with less than 1000 native speakers extant.

References

* Kershner, Tiffany (2001) - "Imperfectivity in Chisukwa," pp. 37-52. "Explorations in African Linguistics: From Lamso to Sesotho", eds. Robert Botne and Rose Vondrasek, Bloomington: Indiana University Working Papers in Linguistics

External links

* [http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/anthro/kershner.htm Faculty page] for Dr. Kershner, an expert on the linguistic structure of Chisukwa.