Matengo language

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Matengo
Chimatengo
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Matengo people
Native speakers	unknown (150,000 cited 1987)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Rufiji–Ruvuma Mbinga Ruhuhu (South) Matengo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mgv`
Guthrie code	`N.13`^[2]
Linguasphere	`99-AUS-rc`

Matengo is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Speakers are mostly monolingual, and neighboring languages are not intelligible.

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