Ngindo language

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Ngindo
Kingindo
Native to Tanzania
Ethnicity Ngindo people
Native speakers
(220,000 cited 1987) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nnq
Glottolog ngin1244 [2]
P.14 [3]

Ngindo is a Bantu language of Tanzania.

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References

  1. Ngindo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngindo". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online