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Zanaki language

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Native to
  
Tanzania

ISO 639-3
  
zak

Native speakers
  
100,000 (2005)

Glottolog
  
zana1238

Region
  
Mara Region, Musoma Rural District, Makongoro Division

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Logooli–Kuria (E.40) Zanaki

Zanaki (Ikizanaki) is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It is spoken by the Zanaki people of Musoma and was the first language of Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, son of the King Burito Nyerere (1860–1942).

References

Zanaki language Wikipedia