Ndamba or "Chindamba" is classified as a
Bantu language. It is one of 87 languages spoken in
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 ...
Most Chindamba speakers are bilingual in
Swahili and Chindamba.
The other two
languages most similar to Ndamba are
Mbunga and
Pogolo , because all of them belong to the same
language group
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in his ...
, which are the
Kilombero
Kilombero District is a district in Morogoro Region, south-western Tanzania.
The district is situated in a vast floodplain, between the Kilombero River in the south-east and the Udzungwa-Mountains in the north-west. On the other side of the Kilo ...
languagues.
[ Kilombero languages]
References
Kilombero languages
Languages of Tanzania
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