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The Zimbabwean Ndebele language, also called Northern Ndebele, isiNdebele, Sindebele, or Ndebele is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of Zimbabwe. isiNdebele is related to the Zulu language spoken in South Africa. This is because the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe descend from followers of the Zulu leader Mzilikazi, who left KwaZulu in the early nineteenth century during the Mfecane. The Zimbabwean Ndebele and Transvaal Ndebele languages are not variants of the same language; though they both fall in the Nguni group of Bantu languages, Zimbabwean Ndebele is essentially a dialect of Zulu, and the Transvaal Ndebele language falls within a different subgroup. The shared name is due to contact between Mzilikazi's people and the original Ndebele, through whose territory they crossed during the Mfecane. ==Pronunciation== Unlike Southern Ndebele, Northern Ndebele has no click consonants, though it reportedly did in the past. Emphasis is usually on the penultimate syllable. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zimbabwean Ndebele language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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