Tumbuka

E274665

Tumbuka is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Malawi and parts of Zambia and Tanzania.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Tumbuka language 15
Tumbuka canonical 14
Northern Tumbuka 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
alternativeName Chitumbuka ⓘ
Citumbuka ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Nsenga language ⓘ
Tonga language (Zambia) ⓘ
linked to: Tonga language
countryStatus major language in Northern Malawi ⓘ
regional language in Zambia ⓘ
glottocode tumb1250 ⓘ
guthrieClassification N21 ⓘ
hasAlternativeSpelling Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
hasBasicWordOrder SVO ⓘ
hasDialects Central Tumbuka ⓘ
Northern Tumbuka ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka

Southern Tumbuka ⓘ
hasEducationalStatus taught as a subject in some Malawian schools ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Bemba language ⓘ
Chewa language ⓘ
linked to: Chichewa
hasOrthography standardized Latin-based orthography ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system ⓘ
tone language ⓘ
iso639-1Code tbd ⓘ
iso639-2Code tum ⓘ
languageBranch Zone N (Bantu) ⓘ
languageFamily Bantu ⓘ
macrolanguageStatus individual language (not a macrolanguage) ⓘ
primaryRegion Eastern Zambia ⓘ
Northern Malawi ⓘ
region Eastern Province of Zambia ⓘ
Northern Region of Malawi ⓘ
Northern Zambia border areas ⓘ
Southwestern Tanzania border areas ⓘ
spokenByEthnicGroup Tumbuka people ⓘ
spokenIn Malawi ⓘ
Tanzania ⓘ
Zambia ⓘ
subfamily Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
subgroup Sabi languages ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
local media ⓘ
primary education in some areas ⓘ
usedIn radio broadcasting in Malawi ⓘ
religious texts ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (31)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chichewa → closelyRelatedTo → Tumbuka ⓘ
Tumbuka → hasDialects → Northern Tumbuka ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Tumbuka → hasAlternativeSpelling → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Sena–Nyanja languages → hasMemberLanguage → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Eastern Province, Zambia → hasLanguage → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Lake Malawi region → language → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Cinyanja → neighboringLanguage → Tumbuka ⓘ
Tonga language (Malawi) → neighboringLanguage → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Nyasaland → ethnicGroupsMajor → Tumbuka ⓘ
Eastern Province → language → Tumbuka ⓘ
Northern Region, Malawi → hasLanguage → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Rumphi → languageUsed → Tumbuka ⓘ
Mzimba → languageUsed → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Karonga → languageSpoken → Tumbuka ⓘ
Citumbuka → alternateName → Tumbuka ⓘ
tum → refersTo → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
tum → ISO639-2CodeFor → Tumbuka ⓘ
tum → ISO639-3CodeFor → Tumbuka ⓘ
Nsenga language → hasDialectContinuumWith → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Nsenga language → sharesVocabularyWith → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Nsenga language → sharesGrammarFeaturesWith → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Tumbuka people → languageSpoken → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Central Tumbuka → partOf → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Central Tumbuka → glottologClassification → Tumbuka (tumb1250) ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Central Tumbuka → principalVarietyOf → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka
Southern Tumbuka → subdivisionOf → Tumbuka language ⓘ
linked to: Tumbuka