Matengo language

Matengo
Matengo
Chimatengo
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Matengo people
Native speakers	(150,000 cited 1987)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Rufiji–Ruvuma Mbinga Ruhuhu (South) Matengo; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mgv
Glottolog	mate1258
Guthrie code	N.13
Linguasphere	99-AUS-rc

Matengo is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Speakers are mostly monolingual, and neighboring languages are not intelligible.

Matengo language is relatively related to Ngoni language in that the two have similar history of origin.

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