Native to Tanzania Ethnicity Matumbi people ISO 639-3 mgw | Region Kilwa district Native speakers (72,000 cited 1978) | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu
Rufiji–Ruvuma
Mbinga
Matandu
Matumbi | ||
Matuumbi, also known as Kimatumbi, is a language spoken in Tanzania in the Kipatimu region of the Kilwa District, south of the Rufiji river. It is a Bantu language, P13 in Guthrie's classification. Kimatuumbi is closely related to the Ngindo, Rufiji and Ndengereko languages. It is spoken by about 70,000 people, according to the Ethnologue.
Matuumbi is the augmentative plural of the Kimatuumbi word for 'hills' (singular form: kituumbi, class 7/8). Ki- is a Bantu noun class prefix attached to nouns of the class that includes languages (cf. Kiswahili, Kikongo).
References
Matumbi language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA