- Tumbuka
The Tumbuka are a Bantu ethnic group living in Northern
Malawi , EasternZambia and SouthernTanzania . Their chief god is calledChiuta , who is all-powerful, omniscient and self-created, just like the God of theAbrahamic religion s. The language of the Tumbuka is calledchiTumbuka - the 'chi' in front of Tumbuka meaning 'the language of the' just like 'ki' in kiSwahili or 'se' in seTswana. A Tumbuka will call another "vatumbuka", meaning one of the tribe of Tumbukas.The World Almanac (1998) estimates approximately 2,000,000 Tumbuka speakers exist in the aforementioned three countries.
Ethnologue estimates a total of 1,332,000 Tumbuka speakers, including 940,000 in Malawi and 392,000 in Zambia, with no Tumbuka presence listed for Tanzania. [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tum]Tumbuka is a
Bantu language , similar toSwahili in structure and vocabulary.ee also
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Tumbuka language
*Tumbuka mythology External links
* [http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Tumbuka_root.html Very brief report on Tumbuka language.]
* [http://www.imb.org/southern-africa/peoplegroups/tumbuka.htm Brief intro from a Christian missionary group.]
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