Manda language (Tanzania)

Not to be confused with Manda language.
Manda
Native to Tanzania
Ethnicity Manda
Native speakers
22,000 (2002)[1]
Dialects
  • Matumba
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mgs
Glottolog mand1423[2]
N.11[3]
Linguasphere 99-AUS-ra

Manda, or Manda-Matumba, is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It was assigned to the Bena–Kinga (G60) group by Nurse (1988), though Ehret retains it in N10 Rufiji–Ruvuma (Songea).

References

  1. Manda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Manda (Tanzania)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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