Tumbuka-Senga language

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Senga
Chisenga
Native to Zambia
Region Chama district, Muchinga province
Ethnicity 110,000[1][2]
Native speakers
80,000 (2010 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sgq (proposed)[3]
Glottolog seng1277[4]

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. 1.0 1.1 Senga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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