lang_description: "This is a Bantu language, most closely related to Kimatuumbi. It is a tonal language and has retained the 7 proto-Bantu vowels.
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user_submission: "This language is in eminent danger of dying within the next generation. In the communities where it is spoken, only the elder speak it, and only sometimes, with others who they know speak the language. The childeren are not learning it at home or in the school. They are instead taught Swahili and English. The population of speakers was estimated to be 72,000 in 2006 (Ethnologue) but as elders die, the number dwindles quickly. ",