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Zimba language

Last updated: 2025-08-02 02:13:44

Zimba language
Zimba
South Binja
Native toDR Congo
Native speakers
(120,000 cited 1994 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Kwange
  • Mamba
Language codes
ISO 639-3zmb
Glottologzimb1251
D.26[2]

Zimba is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoken in a band of country south of the Elila River.[3] It is not closely related to other languages, unless the divergent dialects Kwange and Mamba (Kyenyemamba) are considered separate languages.

References

  1. ↑ Zimba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ↑ Bryan, Margaret Arminel (Compiler), The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press 1959.


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