Takama languages
The Takama or Sukuma-Nyamwezi languages are a group of Northeast Bantu languages spoken south of Lake Victoria in north-central Tanzania.{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_and_the_Testimony_of_Language/gTElDQAAQBAJ?hl=en|title=History and the Testimony of Language|page=80}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Takama
|altname=Sukuma-Nyamwezi
|states=Tanzania
|region=Shinyanga Region, Mwanza Region, Simiyu Region, Geita Region, Biharamulo District, Tabora Region, Mbeya Region
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Volta-Congo
|fam4=Benue–Congo
|fam5=Bantoid
|fam6=Southern Bantoid
|fam7=Bantu
|fam8=Northeast Bantu
|protoname=Proto-Takama
|glotto=suku1274
|glottorefname=Sukuma-Nyamwezi
}}
History
The Proto-Takama homeland was somewhere along the west of the Wembere River .{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_African_Classical_Age/1i-IBmCeNhUC?hl=en|title=An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400|pages=99, 196–198, 249, 320–322}}
Classification
The Takama languages are classified by Glottolog as follows:https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/suku1274
{{Tree list}}
- Takama
- Nyamwezic
- Kimbu
- Konongo-Ruwila
- Nyamwezi
- Sukuma
- Sumbwa
{{Tree list/end}}