Luchazi language

Luchazi (Lucazi, "Chiluchazi") is a Bantu language of Angola and Zambia. Missionary Emil Pearson created Ngangela as a standard language by mixing Mbunda, Luchazi, Luvale and Luimbi languages, to allow a single translation of the Bible for the four communities. Ethnically distinct varieties, many of which are subsumed under the generic term "Ngangela", are all "fully intelligible". These are: Luchazi, Nyemba, Mbwela of Angola (Ambuella, "Shimbwera", not to be confused with Mbwela of Zambia), Nkangala, Mbunda, Luimbi (Lwimbi), Yauma, Songo, Chimbandi and Ngondzela. Therefore, it is highly erroneous to suggest that Ngangela is Luchazi.
Phonology.
Consonants.
The following table displays all the consonants in Luchazi:
The position of the speech-organs in producing the consonants is different from the positions taken in producing the similar sounds in European languages. T and D, for example, are lower than in English but higher than in Portuguese. L is flatter-tongued than in either English or Portuguese. Practically all the consonants have similar differences. The language contains many consonantal glides, including the prenasalized plosives and the voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate (the ts sound).
Vowels.
The close front vowel (i), when occurring before another vowel, becomes a semi-consonant and is written y, unless it is immediately preceded by a consonant, when it remains i. Examples: yange, viange.
The vowels have the so-called Continental or Italian values. They are shorter when unstressed and are prolonged when doubled or when stressed at the end of a word.
Short when unstressed or before two consonants or "y" or "s" and in monosyllabic adverbs, as "a" in "tata, paya, asa, hanga". Prolonged when doubled or stressed at the end of a word or syllable. Example: "ku laako".
Short when unstressed, as "a" in "hete, seze".
Short with the value of "e" in "henga, lenda" before two consonants. Exceptions are hembo and membo (due to coalescence of vowels). Many words derived from Portuguese have the short vowel though not followed by two consonants. Examples: "pena, papelo, luneta, ngehena," etc. Prolonged when stressed at the end of a word.
Short when unstressed or before two consonants, as "e" in "citi, linga". In monosyllabics it is short, as "i" in "it". Examples: ni, ndi. Prolonged when stressed. Examples: ti, fui.
Short when unstressed, as "o" in "soko, loto".
Short, with value of "o" in "onga, yoya, kosa, luozi, ndo", before two consonants or y or s, and sometimes before z and in some monosyllables. The o is long in "zoza" and "ngozi". Sometimes prolonged when stressed at the end of a word. Example: "to".
Short, when unstressed or before two consonants or before s, as "u" in "futuka, mbunga, kusa".
Orthography.
Luchazi is written using the Latin alphabet, with most characters representing the same sound as in English, with some exceptions. c is pronounced like "ch" in "church", n followed by k or g is always nasal like "ng" in "ring", the sound of v is bilabial instead of labiodental.
Alphabet.
D, G, J, R, and Sh only exist in loanwords.