Tongwe language
Tongwe | |
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Bende | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Native speakers | 40,000 (1999–2001)[1] |
Dialects |
Tongwe
Bende
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either: tny – Tongwe bdp – Bende |
Glottolog |
tong1320 (Tongwe)[2]bend1258 (Bende)[3] |
F.10 (F.11–12) [4] |
Tongwe (Sitongwe) and Bende (Sibende) constitute a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone F.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), they form a valid node. Indeed, at 90% lexical similarity they may be dialects of a single language.
References
- ↑ Tongwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Bende at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tongwe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bende". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.
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