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Name: Tumbuka
Type: Language
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 Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Tumbuka (N.20); Group N.20 (tumb)
Child Dialects: Nthali (tum-nth) Chipoka (tum-cho) Hewe; Hewa (tum-hew) Nenya (tum-nen) Chitumbuka; Tumbuka, ci- (tum-chb) Chikamanga; Kamanga; Henga; Kamaŋga, ci-; Heŋga (tum-chi) Fililwa; Filirwa (tum-fil) Wenya (tum-wen) Senga; Seŋga (tum-sen) Ngoni; Magodi (tum-ngo) Kandawire (tum-kan) Poka; Chipoka; Phoka; Poka, ci- (tum-pok) Yombe (tum-yom) Fungwe; Fuŋgwe (tum-fun)

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