Learn Tumbuka
Tumbuka is one of many Bantu languages that cover a huge geographical area of sub Saharan Africa. They come from an oral tradition and uTalk has the widest range of them to learn in the market. Nouns are classified differently, for example according to whether they're an animal, plant, or human and this can change the way a sentence works. But don't worry it’s easy to pronounce and you’ll soon get the hang of it.
Learn Tumbuka with uTalk
Where Is It Spoken?
Malawi
Zambia
Tanzania
Number Of Speakers
2,000,000
Language Family
Bantu
Fun facts about Tumbuka
There's a really useful word called 'ujeni' which you can use instead of any noun, place or person. The english equivalents are 'thingy', 'that place' or 'you know who'.
To express a negative you just have to add the word 'chala' or 'yayi' to the end of a sentence.
Tumbuka has numbers up to 5, then 6 is 5 + 1, 7 is 5 + 2 etc. This system means that numbers can get quite long so locals tend to use Tumbuka numbers up to about 20, then switch to English.§§
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