Zimba 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. The t ...

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.

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Lega-Binja languages Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{Bantu-lang-stub