Kamba language

Kamba
	Kikamba
Native to	Kenya, Tanzania
Region	Machakos, Kitui, Makueni and Shimba Hills
Native speakers	3.9 million (2009 census); 600,000 L2 speakers
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Kikuyu–Kamba South Kamba; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	kam
ISO 639-3	Either:; kam – Kamba; dhs – Dhaiso (Thaisu)
Glottolog	east2749
Guthrie code	E.55–56

The Kamba /ˈkæmbə/^[4] language, or Kikamba, is a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people of Kenya. It is also spoken by 5,000 people in Tanzania (Thaisu).

The Kamba language has lexical similarities to other Bantu languages such as Kikuyu, Meru, and Embu.

In Kenya, Kamba is generally spoken in 4 out of the forty-seven Counties of Kenya. These counties are Machakos, Kitui, Makueni, and Kwale. The Machakos variety is considered the standard variety of the three dialects and has been used in the translation of the Bible.^{[citation needed]}

References

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Mwau, John Harun (2006). Kikamba Dictionary: Kikamba-English, Kikamba-Kikamba, English-Kikamba. ISBN 9966-773-09-6.

PanAfriL10n page on Kamba
Ĩvuku ya Mboya kwa andũ Onthe Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Kamba, digitized by Richard Mammana

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↑ Kamba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dhaiso (Thaisu) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh