Tumbuka

E274665
Bantu language natural language

Tumbuka is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Malawi and parts of Zambia and Tanzania.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Tumbuka canonical 3
Tumbuka language 2
Northern Tumbuka 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
alternativeName Chitumbuka ⓘ
Citumbuka ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Nsenga language ⓘ
Tonga language ⓘ
surface form: Tonga language (Zambia)
countryStatus major language in Northern Malawi ⓘ
regional language in Zambia ⓘ
glottocode tumb1250 ⓘ
guthrieClassification N21 ⓘ
hasAlternativeSpelling Tumbuka self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Tumbuka language
hasBasicWordOrder SVO ⓘ
hasDialects Central Tumbuka ⓘ
Tumbuka self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Northern Tumbuka

Southern Tumbuka ⓘ
hasEducationalStatus taught as a subject in some Malawian schools ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Bemba language ⓘ
Chichewa ⓘ
surface form: Chewa language
hasOrthography standardized Latin-based orthography ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system ⓘ
tone language ⓘ
iso639-1Code tbd ⓘ
iso639-2Code tum ⓘ
languageBranch Zone N (Bantu) ⓘ
languageFamily Bantu ⓘ
macrolanguageStatus individual language (not a macrolanguage) ⓘ
primaryRegion Eastern Province, Zambia ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Zambia

Northern Region, Malawi ⓘ
surface form: Northern Malawi
region Eastern Province, Zambia ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Province of Zambia

Northern Region, Malawi ⓘ
surface form: Northern Region of Malawi

Northern Zambia border areas ⓘ
Southwestern Tanzania border areas ⓘ
spokenByEthnicGroup Tumbuka people ⓘ
spokenIn Malawi ⓘ
Tanzania ⓘ
Zambia ⓘ
subfamily Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
subgroup Sabi languages ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
local media ⓘ
primary education in some areas ⓘ
usedIn radio broadcasting in Malawi ⓘ
religious texts ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chichewa → closelyRelatedTo → Tumbuka ⓘ
Eastern Bantu → hasMemberLanguage → Tumbuka ⓘ
Mzuzu → hasWidelySpokenLanguage → Tumbuka ⓘ
Tumbuka → hasDialects → Tumbuka self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Tumbuka
Tumbuka → hasAlternativeSpelling → Tumbuka self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tumbuka language
Sena–Nyanja languages → hasMemberLanguage → Tumbuka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tumbuka language