Matengo language

Matengo
Chimatengo
Native to Tanzania
Ethnicity Matengo people
Native speakers
unknown (150,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mgv
Glottolog mate1258[2]
N.13[3]
Linguasphere 99-AUS-rc

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

References

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


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