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
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Takama
Early form	Proto-Takama
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	suku1274

History

The Proto-Takama homeland was somewhere along the west of the Wembere River . ^{[2] [3]}

Classification

The Takama languages are classified by Glottolog as follows: ^[4]

• Takama
  • Nyamwezic
    • Kimbu
    • Konongo-Ruwila
    • Nyamwezi
    • Sukuma
  • Sumbwa

References

1. History and the Testimony of Language. p. 80.
2. 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.
3. Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century. pp. 487–489, 494.
4. https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/suku1274