Sumbwa language

Sumbwa
Kisumbwa
Region	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Sumbwa people
Native speakers	unknown (190,000 cited 1987)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone F.20) Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Sumbwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`suw`
Glottolog	`sumb1240`^[2]
Guthrie code	`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

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