Lamba is a language found in
Zambia and is 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 between 42 and 78 local languages besides
English – see
Languages of Zambia for further details. 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.