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Sena

A language of Mozambique

ISO 639-3: seh

Population	1,340,000 (2006). 86,000 Podzo in Mozambique (Johnstone 1993).
Region	Northwest, Sofala, Manica, Tete, and Zambezia provinces, lower Zambezi River region.
Language map	Mozambique, reference number 31
Alternate names	Chisena, Cisena
Dialects	Caia (Care, Sare, North Sena), Bangwe (South Sena), Rue (Chirue), Gombe, Sangwe, Podzo (Phodzo, Chipodzo, Cipodzo, Puthsu, Shiputhsu), Gorongosa. Similar to Nyungwe [nyu], Nyanja [nya], Phimbi [phn], Kunda [kdn] of Zambia. Lexical similarity: 92% between the Podzo and Sena-Sare dialects.
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, N, Senga-Sena (N.40), Sena
Language use	Sena Central is the prestige dialect. Limited comprehension of Ndau in Beira region. Ndau [ndc] is the church language in Beira; Shona [sna] and Nyanja [nya] (Chewa) are used in Tâte. They use Ndau to Ndau speakers, Portuguese to other non-Sena.
Language development	Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1983.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Traditional religion, Christian, Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ALEIXO, José Luis; ALICETE, Charles Tomé; BITONE, Flávio Isaías; FORTUNA, Paulo Jaime; MANUEL, Tomás Edmundo; NHAZEZE, Luís, authors. 1998. Bukhu ya kupfundzisa malembero a Cisena - Livro de ortografia de língua Sena.

HEINS, Barbara D., author. 1996. Manual para aprender a língua Sena.

HEINS, Barbara D., author. 1999. Preliminary observations on the Sena demonstrative system.

HEINS, Barbara D., author. 2003. "Observações preliminares sobre os demonstrativos na língua Sena."

HEINS, John H., author. 1999. How to translate proper names into Sena.

HEINS, John H., author. 2001. Semantic structure analysis in Sena.

HEINS, John H., author. 2003. "A transliteração de nomes próprios na língua Sena."

HEINS, John H., author. 2003. "Análise de estrutura semântica da língua Sena."

MATEUS, Marijane Pedro; NYAZEZE, Luís; ROCHA, Marcos Chico Saete, authors. 2008. Vocabulário de Cisena.

VINTON, James E.; VINTON, Virginia C., authors. 2001. A linguistic survey of the Chuwabu language cluster.

VINTON, James E.; VINTON, Virginia C., authors. 2003. "Levantamento linguístico da Língua Chuwabu e suas variantes."

Vernacular Publications

Contos tradicionais. 2010.

Pidacitika na Juwana: Bukhu ya Nyakupfundza. 2008.