Mbamba Bay language

Not to be confused with Mwera language or Nyasa languages.
Mwera
Nyasa
Native to Tanzania
Native speakers
6,000 (2004)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mjh
Glottolog mwer1247[2]
N.201[3]

The language spoken along the shores of Mbamba Bay of Lake Malawi, variously (and ambiguously) known as Mwera or Nyasa, is a poorly attested Bantu language of Tanzania.

References

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