Pimbwe language

Pimbwe
Cipimbwe, Icipimbwe
Native to Tanzania
Native speakers
(29,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 piw
Glottolog pimb1238[2]
M.11[3]

The Pimbwe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Rukwa Region of western Tanzania, in the neighbourhood of Mpimbwe to the northwest of Lake Rukwa [4]

References

  1. Pimbwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pimbwe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Margaret Arminel Bryan, The Bantu Languages of Africa Oxford University Press 1959.


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