Nyambo language
Nyambo | |
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Ekinyambo | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Region | Kagera Region |
Native speakers | 400,000 (2003)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
now |
Glottolog |
nyam1277 [2] |
JE.21 [3] |
The Nyambo, or Ragwe, are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Karagwe District of Kagera Region in far northwestern Tanzania. In 2003 the Nyambo population was estimated to number 400,000.[4]
References
- ↑ Nyambo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nyambo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=TZ
- Josephat M. Rugemalira (2005). A Grammar of Runyambo. Languages of Tanzania Project. ISBN 9987-691-03-X.
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