The
Mambwe and
Lungu peoples living at the southern end of
Lake Tanganyika in
Tanzania
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and
Zambia
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speak a common language with minor dialectical differences. Perhaps half of the
Fipa people to their north speak it as a native language. When spoken by the Fipa, it is called "Fipa-Mambwe"; this is also the term for the branch of Bantu languages which includes
Fipa and Mambwe-Lungu.
Mambwe-Lungu is spoken by the people of Rukwa region, southern Sumbawanga town in Tanzania.
The language is also spoken in Mankato, Mpulungu and Senga district of Zambia.
It has close affinities with languages spoken by other Tanganyikan people like Pimbwe, Rungwa and Namwanga.
References
Relevant literature
*
Bickmore, Lee. 2008. ''Cilungu Phonology.'' Stanford, Center for the Study of Language and Communication.
*
Halemba, Andrzej. 2005. ''Religious and Ethical Values in the Proverbs of the Mambwe People (Zambia).'' Vol. 1. Poland.
*Werner, A. and A. N. Tucker. 1940. Mambwe Proverbs. ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies'' 10.2 (1940), pp. 455-467.
External links
small Mambwe–English dictionary
Rukwa languages
Languages of Zambia
Languages of Tanzania
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