Lunda is a Bantu language spoken where Zambia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo meet, with its Zambian heartland in the North-Western Province. It is one of the seven regional languages officially recognised in Zambia, used in schools and on local radio. Speaker numbers are hard to pin down across three countries, but several hundred thousand people are generally thought to use it. The language is written in the Latin alphabet and shares the noun-class grammar typical of Bantu languages, in which prefixes sort nouns into categories and agreement echoes through the sentence. Historically it was the language of the Lunda Empire, a state that dominated much of central Africa from the seventeenth century, and the modern Lunda-speaking area broadly follows the reach of that older kingdom.
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