Ndamba or "Chindamba" is classified as a
Bantu language
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. It is one of 87 languages spoken in
Tanzania
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Most Chindamba speakers are bilingual in
Swahili and Chindamba.
The other two
language
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s most similar to Ndamba are
Mbunga
The Mbunga are an ethnic and linguistic Bantu group from Kilolo District of Iringa Region and Morogoro Region in Tanzania
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and
Pogolo, because all of them belong to the same
language group, which are the
Kilombero
Kilombero District is a Districts of Tanzania, 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 ...
languagues.
Kilombero languages
The Kilombero languages are a group of Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, ...
References
Kilombero languages
Languages of Tanzania
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