Language name and locationː Shangaji, Nampula, Mozambique [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 桑加吉语, 莫桑比给北部楠普拉省

1. -móote / wahiíti (< Arabic )

21.  eʃiríini na móote ( Arabic + Bantu)

2. -wíiri / tʰeneéne (< Arabic )

22.  eʃiríini na ᵐbiíri

3. -ʈaáʈʰu / talaátha (< Arabic )

23.  eʃiríini na ʈaáʈʰu

4. -ne / aáruba (< Arabic )

24.  eʃiríini naáne

5. -tʰaáno / haámsa (< Arabic )

25.  eʃiríini na tʰaáno

6. siítʰa ( < Arabic )

26.  eʃiríini na siítʰa

7. sabáa ( < Arabic )

27.  eʃiríini na sabáa

8. -náane / tʰamaáníya (< Arabic )

28.  eʃiríini na náane

9. tiísíya  (< Arabic )

29.  eʃiríini na tiísíya

10. kʰuúmi / ańʃára (< Arabic )

30.  talaatʰíini ( < Arabic )

11. kʰuúmi na móote

40.  arubaíini ( < Arabic )

12. kʰuúmi na ᵐbiíri

50.  hamusíini ( < Arabic )

13. kʰuúmi na ʈaáʈʰu

60.  sitʰíini ( < Arabic )

14. kʰuúmi naáne

70.  sabíini ( < Arabic )

15. kʰuúmi na tʰaáno

80.  tʰamaaníini ( < Arabic )

16. kʰuúmi na siítʰa

90.  tuswíini ( < Arabic )

17. kʰuúmi na sabáa

100. miíya ( < Arabic )

18. kʰuúmi na náane

200. miyá ᵐbiíri

19. kʰuúmi na tiísíya

1000. álúfu ( < Arabic )

20. eʃiríini ( < Arabic )

2000. álúfu ᵐbiíri

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Maud Devos, department of Linguistics, Leiden University, Netherlands /Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, June 28, 2011.

提供资料的语言学家: Dr. Maud Devos, 2011 年 6 月 28 日.

Other comments: Shangaji has a numeral system mixing with some indigenous Bantu numbers with Swahili loanwords. Note that high tones are marked, but low ones are left unmarked. Shangaji has be regarded as a Maka or Swahili language.

Shangaji is spoken in three small villages in the Nampula province of Mozambique. The collection focuses on the variant spoken in Naatthembo village, just west of the Sangage peninsula which begins north of Angoche town. Naatthembo has more or less 4000 inhabitants and represents the major Shangaji speaking centre with the two other locations; Nakonya village and the Likookha area in Mogincual adding more or less 500 and 700 speakers to this number of speakers which is in decline due to a lack of intergenerational language transfer. Nthamala village, some 10 km away from Naatthembo, no longer has Shangaji speakers because of a complete shift to the regional lingua franca Makhuwa (Enlai). The Shangaji collection thus responds to an urgent documentation need, also because the language is one of four coastal languages that are believed to bear traces of the Swahili world which once stretched from Somalia to the south of Mozambique.