Tongwe language
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.
| Tongwe | |
|---|---|
| Bende | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
Native speakers | 40,000 (1999–2001)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tny – Tongwebdp – Bende |
| Glottolog | tong1320 Tongwe[2]bend1258 Bende[3] |
F.10 (F.11–12)[4] | |
References
- Tongwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Bende at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tongwe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bende". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.
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