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Lamba, n.2 and a.|ˈlæmbə| Also Ilamba. [African name.] A. n. a. An African of a Bantu people in Northern Zambia and Zaïre; also used as collect. sing. = this people. b. The language of this people. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1908A. C. Madan Lala-Lamba Handbk. p. iii, The Lala and Lamba dialects are so nearly identical, and both so closely allied to the Wisa, that knowledge of either is a sufficient introduction to the other. 1919H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. iii. 207 Lala-Lamba is spoken..east and north of the Kafue watershed. 1937I. Schapera Bantu-Speaking Tribes S. Afr. xiv. 314 In Lamba (Central Bantu) the word is umusi. 1948M. Guthrie Classification Bantu Lang. 78 Ni̧lamba, iki—(Ilamba). 1949E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) 51 Ilamba, a language of Tanganyika. 1950Radcliffe-Brown & Forde Afr. Syst. Kinship & Marriage 221 The Lamba on the Kafue river seem to have a very similar family system. 1956W. V. Brelsford Tribes N. Rhodesia vi. 46 Lamba area as a whole, because of its proximity to the copperbelt, is the most mixed area in the territory. 1956J. Lotz in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 9/2 In certain languages the whole sentence is constructed in a single syntactic key..as in Ilamba of Northern Rhodesia. 1957W. M. Hailey Afr. Survey (rev. ed.) iii. 113 Studies made..of the Zulu, Shona, and Lamba languages. 1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Soc. viii. 255 Among the Lamba of the Ndola District of Northern Rhodesia..traceable cross-cousin marriages formed an extremely low proportion of the total marriages recorded. |