Zemba ko Dhimba yare ne na Bantu da ake magana da shi galibi a Angola inda yaren yana da kusan masu magana da 18,000, kuma a Namibia tare da wasu 7,000. Yana da alaƙa da Herero, kuma galibi ana ɗaukarsa yaren wannan yaren, musamman kamar yadda Zemba ke da kabilanci na Herero.[2]

Yaren Zemba
'Yan asalin magana
22,000
Baƙaƙen boko
Lamban rijistar harshe
ISO 639-3 dhm
Glottolog zemb1238[1]

Akwai nau'o'i daban-daban da furcin sunan: Zimba, Dhimba, Tjimba, Chimba, da dai sauransu. Koyaya, lokacin da aka rubuta Tjimba ko Chimba a Turanci, gabaɗaya yana nufin Mutanen Tjimba ne, waɗanda ba masu farauta-masu tattarawa ba waɗanda ke magana da Zemba. Ya kamata a rarrabe rubutun Himba daga Mutanen Himba da yarensu na Herero

Ethnologue raba Zemba a matsayin yare daban daga Himba (Otjihimba, Ovahimba), wanda aka rarraba a matsayin yaren Herero daidai. [3] (2009), duk da haka, ya kafa yaren Arewa maso Yammacin Herero, wanda ya haɗa da Zemba; daga taswirar, zai bayyana ya haɗa da Himba da Hakaona.

Manazarta

gyara sashe
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yaren Zemba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Zemba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)  
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online