Tongwe language
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| Tongwe | |
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| Bende | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
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Native speakers
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unknown (40,000 cited 1999–2001)[1] |
| Dialects |
Tongwe
Bende
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: tny – Tongwe bdp – Bende |
| Glottolog | tong1320 (Tongwe)[2]bend1258 (Bende)[3] |
F.10 (F.11–12)[4] |
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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
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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- ↑ Tongwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Bende at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
