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- Tumbuka_language abstract "The Tumbuka language is a Bantu language which is spoken in the Northern Region of Malawi and also in the Lundazi district of Zambia. It is also known as Chitumbuka or Citumbuka — the chi- prefix in front of Tumbuka means \"the language of\", and is understood in this case to mean \"the language of (the Tumbuka people)\". Tumbuka belongs to the same language group (Guthrie Zone N) as Chewa and Sena.The World Almanac (1998) estimates that there are approximately 2,000,000 Tumbuka speakers, though other sources estimate a much smaller number. The majority of Tumbuka speakers are said to live in Malawi. Tumbuka is the most widely spoken of the languages of Northern Malawi, especially in the Rumphi, Mzuzu, and Mzimba districts.There are substantial differences between the form of Tumbuka spoken in urban areas of Malawi (which borrows some words from Swahili and Chewa) and the \"village\" or \"deep\" Tumbuka spoken in villages. The Rumphi variant is often regarded as the most \"linguistically pure\", and is sometimes called \"real Tumbuka\". The Mzimba dialect has been strongly influenced by Zulu (chiNgoni), even so far as to have clicks in words like chitha [ʇʰitʰa] \"urinate\", which do not occur in other dialects.The Tumbuka language suffered during the rule of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda, since in 1968 as a result of his one-nation, one-language policy it lost its status as an official language in Malawi. As a result, Tumbuka was removed from the school curriculum, the national radio, and the print media. With the advent of multi-party democracy in 1994, Tumbuka programmes were started again on the radio, but the number of books and other publications in Tumbuka remains low.".
- Tumbuka_language iso6392Code "tum".
- Tumbuka_language iso6393Code "tum".
- Tumbuka_language languageFamily Atlantic–Congo_languages.
- Tumbuka_language languageFamily Bantoid_languages.
- Tumbuka_language languageFamily Bantu_languages.
- Tumbuka_language languageFamily Benue–Congo_languages.
- Tumbuka_language spokenIn Malawi.
- Tumbuka_language spokenIn Tanzania.
- Tumbuka_language spokenIn Zambia.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink Tumbuka_root.html.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink chitumbu.htm.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink ?page=linguascale&linguacode=99-AUS-wc.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink FULLTEXT01.pdf.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink lm-northernmalawi.pdf.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink mw-north-a4.jpg.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink 2008.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink Tumbuka.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink paper2764.pdf.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink kamwendo.pdf.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageExternalLink www.unima-cls.org.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageID "1232615".
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageLength "16793".
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageOutDegree "39".
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageRevisionID "698729379".
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Allophone.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic–Congo_languages.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Bantoid_languages.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Bantu_languages.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Benue–Congo_languages.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Click_languages.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Malawi.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Zambia.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Non-tonal_languages_in_tonal_families.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Nyasa_languages.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tumbuka_people.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Chewa_language.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Click_consonant.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Focus_(linguistics).
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Guthrie_classification_of_Bantu_languages.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Hastings_Banda.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Ideophone.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Lundazi.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Malawi.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Mzimba.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Mzuzu.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Phoneme.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Rumphi.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Sena_language.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Swahili_language.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Tanzania.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Tone_(linguistics).
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Tumbuka_mythology.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Tumbuka_people.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Zambia.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLink Zulu_language.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Chitumbuka".
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tumbuka language".
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tumbuka speakers".
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tumbuka".
- Tumbuka_language date "2006".
- Tumbuka_language fam Atlantic–Congo_languages.
- Tumbuka_language fam Bantoid_languages.
- Tumbuka_language fam Bantu_languages.
- Tumbuka_language fam Benue–Congo_languages.
- Tumbuka_language familycolor "Niger-Congo".
- Tumbuka_language glotto "tumb1250".
- Tumbuka_language glottorefname "Tumbuka".
- Tumbuka_language guthrie "N.21".
- Tumbuka_language iso "tum".
- Tumbuka_language lingua "99".
- Tumbuka_language name "Tumbuka".
- Tumbuka_language nativename "chiTumbuka".
- Tumbuka_language ref "e18".
- Tumbuka_language speakers "2600000".
- Tumbuka_language states Malawi.
- Tumbuka_language states Tanzania.
- Tumbuka_language states Zambia.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Authority_control.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:IPA-xx.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_language.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:InterWiki.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Languages_of_Malawi.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Languages_of_Zambia.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Narrow_Bantu_languages.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refbegin.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Tumbuka_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Wikivoyage.
- Tumbuka_language subject Category:Click_languages.
- Tumbuka_language subject Category:Languages_of_Malawi.
- Tumbuka_language subject Category:Languages_of_Zambia.
- Tumbuka_language subject Category:Non-tonal_languages_in_tonal_families.
- Tumbuka_language subject Category:Nyasa_languages.
- Tumbuka_language subject Category:Tumbuka_people.
- Tumbuka_language hypernym Language.
- Tumbuka_language type Group.
- Tumbuka_language type Language.
- Tumbuka_language type Group.
- Tumbuka_language type Language.
- Tumbuka_language type Redirect.