Mambwe-Lungu language

Mambwe
Lungu
Native to	Tanzania, Zambia
Ethnicity	Mambwe, Lungu, Fipa
Native speakers	500,000 (2002 & 2010 censuses)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Rukwa Mbozi Mwika Mambwe
Dialects	Mambwe (Ichimambwe) Cilungu/Lungu (Ichirungu, Adong) Fipa-Mambwe (Kifipa cha kimambwe)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mgr
Glottolog	mamb1296[2]
Guthrie code	M.14–15[3]

The Mambwe and Lungu peoples living at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and Zambia speak a common language with minor dialectical differences. Perhaps half of the Fipa people to their north speak it as a native language. When spoken by the Fipa, it is called "Fipa-Mambwe"; this is also the term for the branch of Bantu languages which includes Fipa and Mambwe-Lungu.

References

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

External links

• small Mambwe–English dictionary