Matengo language
Matengo | |
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Chimatengo | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Matengo people |
Native speakers | (150,000 cited 1987)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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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
- ↑ Matengo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Matengo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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