{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in Tanzania and Zambia}} {{Infobox language |name=Mambwe |nativename=''Lungu'' |states=[[Tanzania]], [[Zambia]] |ethnicity=[[Mambwe people|Mambwe]], [[Lungu people|Lungu]], [[Fipa people|Fipa]] |speakers= {{sigfig|502,000|2}} |date=2002 & 2010 censuses |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Volta–Congo languages|Volta–Congo]] |fam4=[[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]] |fam5=[[Southern Bantoid languages|Southern Bantoid]] |fam6=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] |fam7=[[Rukwa languages|Rukwa]] |fam8=Mbozi |fam9=Mwika |dia1=Mambwe (''Ichimambwe'') |dia2=Cilungu/Lungu (''Ichirungu'', Adong) |dia3=Fipa-Mambwe (''Kifipa cha kimambwe'') |iso3=mgr |glotto=mamb1296 |glottorefname=Mambwe-Lungu |guthrie=M.14–15 }} The [[Mambwe people|Mambwe]] and [[Lungu people|Lungu]] peoples living at the southern end of [[Lake Tanganyika]] in [[Tanzania]] and [[Zambia]] speak a common language with minor dialectical differences. Perhaps half of the [[Fipa people]] to their north speak it as a native language. When spoken by the Fipa, it is called "Fipa-Mambwe"; this is also the term for the branch of Bantu languages which includes [[Fipa language|Fipa]] and Mambwe-Lungu.
Mambwe-Lungu is spoken by the people of Rukwa region, southern Sumbawanga town in Tanzania. The language is also spoken in Mankato, Mpulungu and Senga district of Zambia. It has close affinities with languages spoken by other Tanganyikan people like Pimbwe, Rungwa and Namwanga.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Watson | first = William | year = 1971 | title = Tribal cohesion in a money economy; a study of the Mambwe people of Zambia | url = https://archive.org/details/tribalcohesionin0000wats/mode/1up <!-- required --> | publisher = Manchester University Press | location = Manchester | pages = 14 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Relevant literature== *[[Lee Stephen Bickmore|Bickmore, Lee]]. 2008. ''Cilungu Phonology.'' Stanford, Center for the Study of Language and Communication. *[[Andrzej Halemba|Halemba, Andrzej]]. 2005. ''Religious and Ethical Values in the Proverbs of the Mambwe People (Zambia).'' Vol. 1. Poland. *Werner, A. and A. N. Tucker. 1940. Mambwe Proverbs. ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies'' 10.2 (1940), pp. 455-467.
==External links== * [http://www.cbold.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Load.aspx?Langue=Mambwe&Type=Text&Fichier=Mambwe.Halemba1995.txt small Mambwe–English dictionary]
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