Kinga language

Kinga
	Ekikinga
Native to	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Kinga, Magoma
Native speakers	150,000 (2003)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu South Tanzania Highlands Bantu Kinga-Magoma Kinga; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Kinga; Magoma;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; zga – Kinga; gmx – Magoma
Glottolog	king1258
Guthrie code	G.65,651[2]
Linguasphere	99-AUS-uf

Kinga is a Bantu language of the Kinga tribe in Tanzania. Magoma is ethnically distinct, and mutual intelligibility with the Magoma variety is low.

References

Kinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Magoma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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[e18-1] Kinga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Magoma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Guthrie-2] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online