Tumbuka

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The Tumbuka language is a Bantu language which is spoken in parts of Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania. The language of the Tumbuka people is called chiTumbuka — the chi- marker in front of Tumbuka means “thing”, “concept”, and is understood in this case “the language of”. This marker is similar to shi- in shimaore, se- (si- in some parts of this language area) in seTswana / siTswana or ki- in kiSwahili, and iki- (or ki-) in Ikinyarwanda / Kinyarwanda, among several examples. The World Almanac (1998) estimates approximately 2,000,000 Tumbuka speakers exist in the aforementioned three countries. There are substantial differences between the form of Tumbuka spoken in urban areas (which borrows some words from urinate, which do not occur in other dialects. Senga dialect is not actually Tumbuka at all, but a Sabi language more closely related to Bemba.
Source : DBpedia

Names (more)

[af] Toemboeka
[am] ቱምቡካ
[ar] التامبوكا
[az] tumbuka dili
[bn] তুম্বুকা
[bs] tumbuka
[br] tumbuka
[bg] тумбука
[ca] tumbuka
[cs] tumbukština
[da] tumbuka
[de] Tumbuka
[el] Τουμπούκα
[en] Tumbuka language
[eo] Tumbuka lingvo
[et] tumbuka
[eu] Tumbukera
[fa] تومبوکایی
[fi] tumbuka
[fr] Tumbuka
[gl] Tumbuka
[gu] તુમ્બુકા
[he] טומבוקה
[hi] तम्बूका
[hr] tumbuka
[hu] tumbuka
[id] Tumbuka
[is] túmbúka
[it] Lingua tumbuka
[ja] トゥンブカ語
[kn] ತುಂಬುಕಾ
[ks] تُمبُکا
[rw] Igitumbuka
[ko] 툼부카어
[lo] ຕຳບູກາ
[lv] tumbuku
[lt] Tumbukų kalba
[ml] തുംബുക
[mr] तुम्बुका
[mk] тумбука
[mt] Tumbuka
[nl] ChiTumbuka
[nn] tumbuka
[nb] tumbuka
[or] ଟୁମ୍ବୁକା
[pl] Język tumbuka
[pt] Língua tumbuka
[rm] tumbuka
[ro] tumbuka
[ru] Тумбука
[sk] tumbuka
[sl] tumbukščina
[es] Idioma tumbuka
[sr] Тумбука
[sw] Kitumbuka
[sv] Tumbuka
[ta] தும்புகா
[te] టుంబుకా
[th] ทุมบูกา
[tr] Tumbuka
[uk] Тумбука
[ur] ٹمبوکا
[vi] Tiếng Tumbuka
[zu] Isi-Tumbuka

Language type : Living

Language resources for Tumbuka

Open Languages Archives

Tumbuka Wikipedia
Wiktionary - Category:Tumbuka language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:tumbuka [fr]

Technical notes

This page is providing structured data for the language Tumbuka.
Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is tum.

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-2B : tum
ISO 639-2T : tum
ISO 639-3 : tum

Linked Data URIs

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tum
http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:tum
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/tum

More URIs at sameas.org

Sources

Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: tum

Freebase ISO 639-3 : tum
GeoNames.org Country Information

Publications Office of the European Union
Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages