Shanjo (Sanjo) is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. T ...

of Zambia. Maho (2009) lists it as distinct from

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, which it has sometimes been classified as a dialect of.

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