Ndengereko language

{{Short description|Language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Ndengereko

|nativename=Rufiji

|states=Tanzania

|region=Ruvuma

|ethnicity=Ndengereko

|speakers=72,000

|date=2013

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu

|fam6=Rufiji–Ruvuma

|fam7=Mbinga

|fam8=Matandu

|lc1=ndg

|ld1=Ndengereko

|lc2=rui

|ld2=Rufiji (duplicate code)

|guthrie=P.11, P.12

|glotto=nden1248

|glottorefname=Ndengereko

}}

Ndengereko, also known as Rufiji (Fiji, Ruihi) after the local river,Harald Hammarström (2013) Review of the Ethnologue, 16th Ed. is a Bantu language of the Matumbi hills, near Kibiti, and near Mchukivi and Bungu, Tanzania.