Lozi, or siLozi, is a Bantu language of western Zambia, the historic Barotseland region along the upper Zambezi, and of the Zambezi Region in north-eastern Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Its history is unusual: it descends largely from the speech of the Kololo, a Sotho-speaking people who conquered the area in the nineteenth century, so it is closely related to Southern Sotho despite its location far to the north. Lozi is one of Zambia's officially recognised regional languages and is used in schools and broadcasting there and in Namibia. It is written in the Latin alphabet. Estimates put first-language speakers in the hundreds of thousands, with many more using it as a second language.
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