ABSTRACT
Lozi is the term now applied to Kololo, a language of which the grammar and many of the words are derived from the Sotho of the Kololo conquerors of the Lozi, whose own language is called Luyi or Luyana. Many Lozi words are Luyi but Lozi can understand Sotho in which the Bible was first taught in Barotseland. Lozi is now the lingua franca of Barotseland and one of the four official Bantu languages of Northern Rhodesia.
