public_comment: ""The numbers above proposed by Ethnologue 1999 (27,000) and UDSM LoT project 2009 (41,290) seem to be closer to the population of ethnic group. The population of speakers and that of ethnic group are rarely distinguishable especially for Bantu speakers... No creditable number of speakers is available."",
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updated_at: "2018-03-29 07:19:13",
speaker_attitude: ""Bende people have relatively negative attitude towards their language, since any people evaluate themselves more negatively than other neighboring ethnic groups."",
government_support: "None",
institutional_support: ""SIL-International Katavi branch has launched the Bende project since 2011."",