Lamba
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Lamba is an uninhabited island within the Shetland Islands. It is located in Yell Sound 1.5 km (1 mile) North of the entrance to the Sullom Voe inlet. Rising 35 m (115 feet) above sea level, it has an area of 43 ha (106 acres). Its main feature is a 27m high light marking the entrance to Sullom Voe.
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In Madagascar it is a sarong (garment)
In Zambia it is a language related to Bemba and commonly spoken in the Copperbelt. There are about 210,000 native speakers in the northern parts of Zambia and southern fringes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lamba is also spoken in Lusaka, mainly because many speakers have migrated there for jobs. Lamba is a Bantu language. (In fact, "mu ntu" means "one person" in Lamba and "ba ntu" means "two or more people".) Depending on who does the counting, Zambia has 70 or 78 local languages besides English. Some people might say Lamba is a dialect of Bemba. Though the two languages share many words, they are not as close as say Cockney and Haitian Creole are to English or French.
