Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 kam
Kamba (Kenya) Language Kĩkamba
Kamba (Kenya) is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 4.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Kamba (Kenya) is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Kamba (Kenya)
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Southern Bantoid
- Narrow Bantu
- East Bantu
- Northeast Savanna Bantu
- Central Kenya Bantu
- Kamba-Dhaisu
- Kamba (Kenya)
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Kamba (Kenya) language
Kamba (Kenya) (Kĩkamba) is spoken by about 4.1 million people, which makes it the 206th most spoken language in the world — just behind Bukit Malay (4.1 million) and ahead of Banjar (4.0 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Kamba-Dhaisu group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Kamba (Kenya) spoken?
Kamba (Kenya) is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Kenya (4.4 million).
Kamba (Kenya) is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Kamba (Kenya) is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Kikuyu, Meru, Chuka, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Rundi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kam.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.