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Language code: loz

Technical information about ISO 639 language code loz

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The table below provides technical details for the Lozi language, designated by the loz code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

loz

Name

Lozi

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Lozi (Silozi proper)LuyanaKwandiMboweMakoma
Related languages
Southern Sotho (Sesotho)TswanaNorthern Sotho (Sepedi)KgalagadiSubia
Key facts
Emerged from the 19th-century contact between Sotho-speaking Kololo and the Luyana kingdomNoun-class prefixes govern agreement across verbs, adjectives and pronounsWritten in a Latin-based alphabet first regularised by Paris Evangelical missionariesHas two primary level tones that create lexical and grammatical contrastsSpeakers call the language Silozi, while Lozi refers to the people.
Sample phrase

Lumela, u phela joang?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Lozi language, identified by the code loz, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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