Tumbuka-Senga language

Senga
Chisenga
Native to Zambia
Region Chama district, Muchinga province
Ethnicity 110,000[1]
Native speakers
80,000 (2010 census)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog seng1277[2]

Senga is an erstwhile 'dialect' of Tumbuka that is actually a distinct language, more closely related to Bemba than to Tumbuka (Christine Ahmed 1995).

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Senga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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