Pimbwe language explained

Pimbwe
Nativename:Cipimbwe, Icipimbwe
States:Tanzania
Speakers:29,000
Date:1987
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Bantoid
Fam5:Bantu
Fam6:Rukwa
Fam7:Mbozi
Fam8:Mwika
Fam9:North
Iso3:piw
Glotto:pimb1238
Glottorefname:Pimbwe
Guthrie:M.11

The Pimbwe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Rukwa Region of western Tanzania, in the neighbourhood of Mpimbwe to the northwest of Lake Rukwa[1]

Notes and References

  1. Margaret Arminel Bryan, The Bantu Languages of Africa Oxford University Press 1959.