Native to Tanzania Dialects Tongwe
Bende | Native speakers 40,000 (1999–2001) | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Southern Bantoid
Bantu (Zone F.10)
Tongwe ISO 639-3 Either:
tny – Tongwe
bdp – Bende Glottolog tong1320 (Tongwe)
bend1258 (Bende) | ||
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
Tongwe language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA