Tongwe language

Tongwe
Tongwe
Bende
Native to	Tanzania
Native speakers	(40,000 cited 1999)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone F.10) Tongwe; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Tongwe; Bende;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; tny – Tongwe; bdp – Bende

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

Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.

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