Mbugwe language
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| Mbugwe | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Mbugwe |
Native speakers | 24,000 (1999)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mgz |
| F.34[2] | |
Mbugwe or Mbuwe (Kimbugwe) is a Bantu language of spoken by the Mbugwe people of Lake Manyara in the Manyara Region of Tanzania.
Mbugwe is isolated from other Bantu languages, being bordered by the locally dominant Cushitic language Iraqw to the west, the Gorowa language (or dialect of Iraqw) to the south, the Nilotic Maasai language to the east, and the lake to the north. It shares about 70% vocabulary with its Bantu cousin Rangi.
References
- ↑ Mbugwe reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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