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Rangi or Langi (there is no distinction between and ; also known as ''Irangi, Kilaangi,'' etc.) is a Bantu language of spoken by the Rangi people of Kondoa District in the Dodoma Region of Central Tanzania. Whilst the language is known as Rangi in English and Kirangi in the dominant Swahili spoken throughout the African Great Lakes, the self-referent term is Kilaangi. Estimates at the number of Rangi-speakers range from 270,000〔Bergman et al.2007〕 to 410,000 speakers.〔Grimes 2005〕 Rangi is the largest linguistic group in the Babati-Kondoa region. Two main varieties of Rangi are identified - that spoken in the Rangi Highlands (known in Swahili as Irangi ya juu) and that of the Lowlands (Irangi ya Chini). Despite differences, these varieties are mutually intelligible. However, some dialectal variation is also found between the varieties spoken in the main town of Kondoa as well as in the predominantly Rangi villages of Haubi, Kolo, Mondo etc. == Grammar == Rangi has 19 noun classes. Rangi has come to the attention of linguists due to a number of features it exhibits which are unusual for Bantu languages. Included in this is the verb-auxiliary ordering found in two tenses in the languages. This unusual word order is also found in the neighbouring Bantu language Mbugwe spoken in the Babati region. 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「Rangi language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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