Takama languages
The Takama or Sukuma-Nyamwezi languages are a group of Northeast Bantu languages spoken south of Lake Victoria in north-central Tanzania.[1]
| Takama | |
|---|---|
| Sukuma-Nyamwezi | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Region | Shinyanga Region, Mwanza Region, Simiyu Region, Geita Region, Biharamulo District, Tabora Region, Mbeya Region |
Early form | Proto-Takama
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | suku1274 |
History
[edit]The Proto-Takama homeland was somewhere along the west of the Wembere River .[2] [3]
Classification
[edit]The Takama languages are classified by Glottolog as follows:[4]
- Takama
- Nyamwezic
- Sumbwa
References
[edit]- ^ History and the Testimony of Language. p. 80.
- ^ An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400. pp. 99, 196–198, 249, 320–322.
- ^ Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century. pp. 487–489, 494.
- ^ https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/suku1274