Manda language (Tanzania)

Manda
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Manda
Native speakers	22,000 (2002)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Bena–Kinga (G60) Manda
Dialects	Matumba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mgs`
Glottolog	`mand1423`^[2]
Guthrie code	`N.11`^[3]
Linguasphere	`99-AUS-ra`

Manda, or Manda-Matumba, is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It was assigned to the Bena–Kinga (G60) group by Nurse (1988), though Ehret retains it in N10 Rufiji–Ruvuma (Songea).

References

↑ Manda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Manda (Tanzania)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online