Bookkeeping · ISO 639-3 njd
Ndonde Hamba Language
Ndonde Hamba is a Bookkeeping language spoken by about 1.4 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Ndonde Hamba is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Ndonde Hamba language
Ndonde Hamba is spoken by about 1.4 million people, which makes it the 396th most spoken language in the world — just behind Machinga (1.4 million) and ahead of Ngandyera (1.4 million). It belongs to the Bookkeeping language family.
Where is Ndonde Hamba spoken?
Ndonde Hamba is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Tanzania (1.4 million).
Ndonde Hamba is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Ndonde Hamba is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Ahirani.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 njd.
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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.