Kimbu | |
Nativename: | Kikimbu |
States: | Tanzania |
Ethnicity: | Kimbu |
Speakers: | 78,000 |
Date: | 1987 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
Fam5: | Bantoid |
Fam6: | Bantu |
Fam7: | Northeast Bantu |
Fam8: | Sukuma-Nyamwezi |
Fam9: | Nyamwezic |
Iso3: | kiv |
Glotto: | kimb1242 |
Glottorefname: | Kimbu |
Guthrie: | F.24 |
Kimbu is a Bantu language of Tanzania. In 1992, use of Kimbu was declining but still in regular use in certain contexts.[1] As of 2018, most children of Kimbu speakers learn Swahili as a first language, and do not learn Kimbu well.[2]