Tumbuka-Senga language

Not to be confused with Nsenga language.
Senga
Chisenga
Native to Zambia
Region Chama district, Muchinga province
Ethnicity 110,000[1][2]
Native speakers
 80,000 (2010 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sgq (proposed)[3]
Glottolog seng1277[4]

Senga is an erstwhile 'dialect' of Tumbuka that is actually a distinct language, more closely related to Bemba than to Tumbuka (Christine Ahmed 1995).

References

  1. 1 2 Senga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  4. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Senga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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