Matengo is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The t ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

. 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.

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Rufiji-Ruvuma languages Languages of Tanzania {{bantu-lang-stub