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Mbugwe or Mbuwe (Kimbugwe) is a Bantu language of spoken by the Mbugwe people of Lake Manyara in the Manyara Region of Central Tanzania. Mbugwe is estimated to be spoken by some 34,000 people.

Mbugwe
Native toTanzania
EthnicityMbugwe
Native speakers
24,000 (1999)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
        • Bantu (Zone F)
          • Mbugwe–Rangi (F.30)
            • Mbugwe
Language codes
ISO 639-3mgz
Glottologmbug1242
Guthrie code
F.34[2]

Mbugwe is isolated from other Bantu languages, being bordered by the locally dominant Cushitic language Iraqw to the west, the Gorowa language (or dialect of Iraqw) to the south, the Nilotic Maasai language to the east, and the lake to the north. It shares about 70% vocabulary with its Bantu cousin Rangi.


Grammar


As is common across Bantu languages, Mbugwe employs a system of noun classes. There are 16 noun classes. The subclasses 1a and 15a are also identified.

The syntax is head-initial with adjectives and other modifiers appearing after the noun. Demonstratives may sometimes appear before the head noun.


Phonology


Mbugwe is considered to be a seven-vowel language. It is a tonal language with two levels of tone identified - High and Low. Tone is distinctive lexically as well as grammatically.


Genetic affiliation


The language most closely related to Mbugwe is Rangi spoke in the Kondoa District of Central Tanzania. Mbugwe has been classified as F.34 following Guthrie's Bantu classification.



References


  1. Mbugwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online



На других языках


- [en] Mbugwe language

[fr] Mbugwe (langue)

Le mbugwe est une langue bantoue parlée par la population mbugwe en Tanzanie.

[ru] Мбугве (язык)

Мбугве (Buwe, Kimbugwe, Mbugwe, Mbuwe) — находящийся под угрозой исчезновения язык семьи банту, на котором говорит народ мбугве[1], проживающий в районе озера Маньяра в округе Бабати области Маньяра в Танзании.



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