Zimba is a
Bantu language of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
, spoken in a band of country south of the Elila River.
[Bryan, Margaret Arminel (Compiler), ''The Bantu Languages of Africa'', Oxford University Press 1959.] It is not closely related to other languages, unless the divergent dialects Kwange and Mamba (''Kyenyemamba'') are considered separate languages.
References
Lega-Binja languages
Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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