Matengo is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Speakers are mostly monolingual, and neighboring languages are not intelligible.
Matengo | |
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Chimatengo | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Matengo people |
Native speakers | (150,000 cited 1987)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mgv |
Glottolog | mate1258 |
N.13 [2] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUS-rc |
Matengo language is relatively related to Ngoni language in that the two have similar history of origin.
References
edit- ^ Matengo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online