Atlantic-Congo · East Africa

Tongwe

Not endangered

Nothing more than a wordlist has ever been published about Tongwe. What it sounds like, how it works, and what it carries are all undocumented.

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationWordlist or less
ISO 639-3tny
Glottocodetong1320

Spoken in Tanzania

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Atlantic-Congo's family tree with Tongwe.

  1. Bende

    Shifting
    Long grammar

  2. Asu (Tanzania)

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  3. Bena (Tanzania)

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  4. Bondei

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  5. Bukusu

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  6. Chiga

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  7. Chimwiini

    Shifting
    Grammar sketch

  8. Chonyi-Dzihana-Kauma

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

Reference data for Tongwe from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)