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Matuumbi also known as Kimatumbi is a language spoken in Tanzania in the Kipatimu region of the Kilwa District south of the Rufiji river. It is a Bantu language P13 in Guthrie’s classification. Kimatuumbi is closely related to the Ngindo Rufiji and Ndengereko languages. It is spoken by about 70 000 people according to the Ethnologue.Matuumbi is the augmentative plural of the Kimatuumbi word for ‘hills’ (singular form: kituumbi class 7/8).

ISO 639-3 code
mgw
family
Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Bantoid languages, Atlantic–Congo languages
spoken in
Tanzania, Kilwa District

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