Safwa language

Safwa
Cisafwa, Ishisafwa
Native to Tanzania
Ethnicity Safwa people
Native speakers
(160,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sbk
Glottolog safw1238[2]
M.25[3]

Safwa is a Bantu language spoken by the Safwa people of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. Dialects are Guruka, Mbwila, Poroto, Songwe.

References

  1. Safwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Safwa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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