Pimbwe language

Pimbwe
Cipimbwe, Icipimbwe
Native to Tanzania
Native speakers
(29,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 piw
Glottolog pimb1238[2]
M.11[3]

The Pimbwe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Rukwa Region of western Tanzania, in the neighbourhood of Mpimbwe to the northwest of Lake Rukwa [4]

References

  1. ↑ Pimbwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pimbwe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. ↑ Margaret Arminel Bryan, The Bantu Languages of Africa Oxford University Press 1959.


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