Yombe dialect (Zambia)

Yombe
Chiyombe
Native toZambia
RegionMuchinga Province
EthnicityYombe people
Native speakers
(6,900 cited 1999 census)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologyomb1245

Chiyombe or Yombe is a Chitumbuka language spoken by the Yombe people of Zambia, an ethnoreligious group who is part of the Tumbuka family of the Bantu people, within the Sub-Saharan African affinity branch. They speak Tumbuka as their primary language, with a number of speakers in Zambia of over 11,700. Their dialect slightly differs from the Senga dialect of Tumbuka which is also spoken in the country.