Tembo

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A language of Democratic Republic of the Congo

ISO 639-3
tbt
Alternate Names
ChiTembo, Kitembo
Autonym
Chitembo
User Population

150,000 (1994 SIL).

Location

Nord-Kivu and Sud-Kivu provinces: Kalehe territory.

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Language Status

5* (Developing).

Classification
Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, J, Shi-Hunde (D.531)
Dialects

Tembo (Kitembo), Rhinyihinyi. No major dialect differences. Lexical similarity: 75% with Hunde [hke], 70% with Shi [shr], 55% with Nande [nnb], 50% with Nyanga [nyj], 45% with Lega Shabunda [lea].

Language Development

NT: 2017.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Tembo
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

Different from Tembo [tmv] in Ngombe group and Tembo [mwn] (Tambo) in Nyika-Safwa group.