{{Short description|Group of Northeast Bantu languages}} {{Infobox language |name=Takama |altname=Sukuma-Nyamwezi |states=Tanzania |region=Shinyanga Region, Mwanza Region, Simiyu Region, Geita Region, Biharamulo District, Tabora Region, Mbeya Region |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Volta-Congo |fam4=Benue–Congo |fam5=Bantoid |fam6=Southern Bantoid |fam7=Bantu |fam8=Northeast Bantu |protoname='''Proto-Takama''' |glotto=suku1274 |glottorefname=Sukuma-Nyamwezi }} The '''Takama''' or '''Sukuma-Nyamwezi''' languages are a group of Northeast Bantu languages spoken south of Lake Victoria in north-central Tanzania.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_and_the_Testimony_of_Language/gTElDQAAQBAJ?hl=en|title=History and the Testimony of Language|page=80}}</ref>
==History== The Proto-Takama homeland was somewhere along the west of the Wembere River.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_African_Classical_Age/1i-IBmCeNhUC?hl=en|title=An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400|pages=99, 196–198, 249, 320–322}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Africa_from_the_Twelfth_to_the_Sixteenth/9xn5zwEACAAJ?hl=en|title=Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century|pages=487–489, 494}}</ref>
==Classification== The Takama languages are classified by Glottolog as follows:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/suku1274 |title=Family: Sukuma-Nyamwezi |publisher=Glottolog}}</ref> {{Tree list}} *'''Takama''' **Nyamwezic ***Kimbu ***Konongo-Ruwila ***Nyamwezi ***Sukuma **Sumbwa {{Tree list/end}}
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Category:Northeast Bantu languages Category:Languages of Tanzania