Ndonde language

Ndonde
Mawanda
Chindonde Hamba
Native to Tanzania
Native speakers
10,000  (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 njd
Glottolog (insufficiently attested or not a distinct language)
ndon1252[2]
P.24[3]

Ndonde or Ndonde Hamba, also known as Mawanda, is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Classified as Bantu P.20 by Guthrie and said to be similar to Mwera, it is presumably one of the Ruvuma languages with the rest of the P.20 group.

References

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