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Name: Tumbuka Alternate Names: Tumboka; Chitumbuka; Tamboka; Tambuka; Timbuka; Tombucas; Tew Spoken in: Malawi, Zambia Number of speakers: 1,000,000 in Malawi (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 1,142,000 (Ethnologue) Code: tum Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian) Parent Subgroup: Tumbuka (N.20) (tumb) Child Dialects: Kandawire (tum-kan) Yombe (tum-yom) Senga (tum-sen) Wenya (tum-wen) Poka; Chipoka; Phoka (tum-pok) Fungwe (tum-fun) Ngoni; Magodi (tum-ngo) Nenya (tum-nen) Chitumbuka (tum-chb) Chikamanga; Kamanga; Henga (tum-chi) Chipoka (tum-cho) Fililwa; Filirwa (tum-fil) Hewe; Hewa (tum-hew) Nthali (tum-nth)