Ndengereko language

Ndengereko
Rufiji
Native to Tanzania
Region Ruvuma
Ethnicity Ndengereko
Native speakers
72,000 (2013)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
ndg  Ndengereko
rui  Rufiji (duplicate code)
Glottolog nden1248[2]
P.11, P.12[3]

Ndengereko, also known as Rufiji (Fiji, Ruihi) after the local river,[4] is a Bantu language of the Matumbi hills, near Kibiti, and near Mchukivi and Bungu, Tanzania.

References

  1. Ndengereko at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Rufiji (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ndengereko". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Harald Hammarström (2013) Review of the Ethnologue, 16th Ed.


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