Nyamwezi language

Nyamwezi
Region	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Nyamwezi
Native speakers	1.0 million (2006)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Takama Sukuma Nyamwezi
Language codes
ISO 639-2	nym
ISO 639-3	Either: nym – Nyamwezi kcz – Konongo
Glottolog	nyam1276  (Nyamwezi)[2] kono1265  (Konongo)[3]
Guthrie code	F.22[4]

Nyamwezi is a major Bantu language of central Tanzania. It forms a dialect continuum with Sukuma, but is more distinct from other neighboring languages.

References

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