Tumbuka-Senga language
Not to be confused with Nsenga language.
| 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 2 Senga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Senga". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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