Taveta language

Taveta
Native to	Kenya
Ethnicity	Taveta
Native speakers	21,000 (2009 census)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Pare languages Taveta; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tvs
Glottolog	tave1240[2]
Guthrie code	G.21[3]

Taveta or 'Tubeta' is a Northeast Coast Bantu of Kenya, closely related to Pare (called Chasu by speakers), that is spoken by the Taveta people.

Taveta was confused with Dawida by Jouni Maho in his (2009) classification.[3]

References

Taveta at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Taveta". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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