Ndamba | |
States: | Tanzania |
Region: | Morogoro |
Speakers: | 55,000 |
Date: | 1987 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu |
Fam6: | Kilombero |
Fam7: | Mbunga–Ndamba |
Script: | Latin |
Iso3: | ndj |
Glotto: | ndam1239 |
Glottorefname: | Ndamba |
Lingua: | 99-AUS-ta |
Guthrie: | G.52 |
Ndamba or "Chindamba" is classified as a Bantu language.[1] It is one of 87 languages spoken in Tanzania[2] Most Chindamba speakers are bilingual in Swahili and Chindamba.[3]
The other two languages most similar to Ndamba are Mbunga and Pogolo, because all of them belong to the same language group, which are the Kilombero languagues.[4]