The Nkoya (also Shinkoya) people are a
Bantu people
The Bantu peoples, or Bantu, are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. They are native to 24 countries spread over a vast area from Central Africa to Southeast Africa and into Southern ...
native to
Zambia
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, living mostly in the
Western
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and
Southern provinces and the
Mankoya area.
As of 2006, they were estimated to number 146,000 people.
Besides Nkoya proper,
Nkoya dialects include Mbowela (Mbwela, Mbwera, Shimbwera), Lushangi, Shasha, Lukolwe, Mashasha.
References
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SIL Ethnologue
''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' (stylized as ''Ethnoloɠue'') is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensi ...
(2009)
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External links
Kazanga Cultural Association(youtube.com)
J.M. Shimunika, W.M.J. van Binsbergen, ''Likota lya bankoya'', Leiden, African Studies Centre, 1988
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Ethnic groups in Zambia