Pimbwe language
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Pimbwe | |
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Cipimbwe, Icipimbwe | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Native speakers | (29,000 cited 1987)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | piw |
Glottolog | pimb1238 |
M.11 [2] | |
ELP | Pimbwe |
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[3]
References
- ^ Pimbwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Margaret Arminel Bryan, The Bantu Languages of Africa Oxford University Press 1959.
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