Tumbuka-Senga language

Senga
	Chisenga
Native to	Zambia
Region	Chama district, Muchinga province
Ethnicity	110,000[1]
Native speakers	80,000 (2010 census)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Sabi Senga; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	seng1277[2]

Senga is an erstwhile 'dialect' of Tumbuka that is actually a distinct language, more closely related to Bemba than to Tumbuka (Christine Ahmed 1995).

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Senga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Senga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.