Holoholo 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. T ...

of DR Congo and formerly in Tanzania spoken by the

Holoholo people The Holoholo also known as Kalanga (''Wakalanga'' in Swahili) are a Bantu ethnic group that inhabit the shores of central lake Tanganyika. The majority of them live near Kalemie city on Lake Tanganyika in Tanganyika Province of the Democratic Re ...

on either side of

Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika () is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. T ...

. Classification is uncertain, but it may belong with the Takama group (Nurse 2003:169). Maho (2009) classifies D281 Tumbwe (Etumbwe) and D282 Lumbwe as closest to Holoholo. Neither has an ISO code.

References

* L Northeast Bantu languages Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Languages of Tanzania {{Bantu-lang-stub