Fipa language
| Fipa | |
|---|---|
| Ichifipa | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Fipa people |
Native speakers | 200,000 (2002 census) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fip |
| Glottolog | fipa1238 |
M.13 | |
Fipa (Fipa: Ichifipa) is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It is spoken by the Fipa people, who live on the Ufipa plateau in the Rukwa Region of South West Tanzania between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Rukwa. The ethnic group of the Fipa people is larger than the group of Fipa language speakers. On the Tanzanian side, people who speak Mambwe-Lungu may identify as Fipa and consider their language to be a dialect of Fipa.