Tongwe language

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Tongwe
Bende
Native to Tanzania
Native speakers
unknown (40,000 cited 1999–2001)[1]
Dialects
Tongwe
Bende
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
tny – Tongwe
bdp – Bende
Glottolog tong1320  (Tongwe)[2]
bend1258  (Bende)[3]
F.10 (F.11–12)[4]

Tongwe (Sitongwe) and Bende (Sibende) constitute a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone F.10 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), they form a valid node. Indeed, at 90% lexical similarity they may be dialects of a single language.

References

  1. Tongwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Bende at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  4. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  • Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.


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