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Pimbwe language

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Pimbwe
Cipimbwe, Icipimbwe
Native toTanzania
Native speakers
(29,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3piw
Glottologpimb1238
M.11[2]
ELPPimbwe

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 [3]

References

  1. ^ Pimbwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ^ Margaret Arminel Bryan, The Bantu Languages of Africa Oxford University Press 1959.