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Kwaya language

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Native to
  
Tanzania

Native speakers
  
120,000 (2005)

ISO 639-3
  
kya

Region
  
Mara Region

Dialects
  
Kwaya Ruri

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Haya–Jita (J.20) Kwaya

Kwaya is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Jita–Kara–Kwaya are close to being dialects; Maho (2009) separates Ruri from Kwaya as equally distinct.

References

Kwaya language Wikipedia