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Matengo
Chimatengo
Native toTanzania
EthnicityMatengo people
Native speakers
(150,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mgv
Glottologmate1258
N.13[2]
Linguasphere99-AUS-rc

Matengo is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Speakers are mostly monolingual, and neighboring languages are not intelligible.

Matengo language is relatively related to Ngoni language in that the two have similar history of origin.

References

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  1. ^ Matengo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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