Manda language (Tanzania)

Not to be confused with Manda language.
Manda
Native to Tanzania
Ethnicity Manda
Native speakers
22,000 (2002)[1]
Dialects
  • Matumba
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mgs
Glottolog mand1423[2]
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

  1. ↑ Manda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Manda (Tanzania)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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