Sumbwa language

Sumbwa
Kisumbwa
Region Tanzania
Ethnicity Sumbwa people
Native speakers
(190,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 suw
Glottolog sumb1240[2]
F.23[3]

Sumbwa is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It was once thought to be close to Sukuma, but that now appears to be a regional effect.

References

  1. Sumbwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sumbwa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/26/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.