Matumbi language

Matumbi
Kimatuumbi
Spoken in	Tanzania
Region	Kilwa district
Ethnicity	Matumbi people
Native speakers	70,000  (date missing)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Rufiji–Ruvuma Mbinga Matandu Matumbi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mgw

Matuumbi, also known as Kimatumbi, is a language spoken in Tanzania in the Kipatimu region of the Kilwa District, south of the Rufiji river. It is a Bantu language, P13 in Guthrie's classification. Kimatuumbi is closely related to the Ngindo, Mbunga, Rufiji and Ndengereko languages. It is spoken by about 70 000 people, according to the Ethnologue.

Matuumbi is the Kimatuumbi word for 'hills' (singular form: tuumbi, class 5/6). Ki- is a Bantu noun class prefix attached to nouns of the class that includes languages (cf. Kiswahili, Kikongo).

References

• Odden, David (1996) The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatuumbi. (The Phonology of the World's Languages). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Krumm, B. (1912) Grundriss einer Grammatik des Kimatuumbi. Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalischen Sprachen, III.