The Nkoya people are a Bantu people native to Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

, mostly found in the Western and Southern provinces and the Mankoya area.
Their language

Nkoya language

Nkoya is a Bantu language of Zambia. It may be one of the Luba languages, and is at least Luban. Mbwera dialect is distinct....

 is a member of zone L of the Bantu languages

Bantu languages

The Bantu languages constitute a traditional sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages...

.
As of 2006, they were estimated to number 146,000 people.
Besides Nkoya proper, Nkoya dialects include Mbowela (Mbwela, Mbwera, Shimbwera), Lushangi, Shasha, Lukolwe, Mashasha.

External links

• Kazanga Cultural Association (youtube.com)