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Mambwe-Lungu language

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Cilungu is a Bantu language of the Niger-Kordofanian family spoken in the northeastern portion of the Northern province, south of Lake Tanganyika, in Zambia, and on the southeast shore of Lake Rukwa in Tanzania. According to Ethnologue there are 262,800 speakers of “Lungu/Mambwe” in Zambia and another 34,000 Cilungu speakers in Tanzania.