Matengo language explained

Matengo
Nativename:Chimatengo
States:Tanzania
Ethnicity:Matengo people
Speakers:150,000
Date:1987
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Bantoid
Fam5:Bantu
Fam6:Rufiji–Ruvuma
Fam7:Mbinga
Fam8:Ruhuhu (South)
Iso3:mgv
Glotto:mate1258
Glottorefname:Matengo
Guthrie:N.13
Lingua:99-AUS-rc

Matengo is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Speakers are mostly monolingual, and neighboring languages are not intelligible.

Matengo language is relatively related to Ngoni language in that the two have similar history of origin.