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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Matumbi<br />
|nativename=Kimatuumbi<br />
|states=[[Tanzania]]<br />
|region=Kilwa district<br />
|ethnicity=[[Matumbi people]]<br />
|speakers=72,000<br />
|date=1978<br />
|ref=e18<br />
|familycolor=Niger-Congo<br />
|fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]]<br />
|fam3=[[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]]<br />
|fam4=[[Bantoid languages|Bantoid]]<br />
|fam5=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]]<br />
|fam6=[[Rufiji–Ruvuma languages|Rufiji–Ruvuma]]<br />
|fam7=Mbinga<br />
|fam8=[[Ndengereko language]]<br />
|iso3=mgw<br />
|glotto=matu1259<br />
|glottorefname=Matumbi<br />
|guthrie=P.13<br />
}}<br />
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'''Matuumbi''', also known as '''Kimatuumbi''' and '''Kimatumbi''', is a language spoken in [[Tanzania]] in the Kipatimu region of the [[Kilwa District]], south of the Rufiji river. It is a [[Bantu languages|Bantu language]], P13 in [[Malcolm Guthrie|Guthrie's]] classification. Kimatuumbi is closely related to the Ngindo, Rufiji and Ndengereko languages. It is spoken by about 70,000 people, according to the [[Ethnologue]].<br />
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''Matuumbi'' is the augmentative plural of the Kimatuumbi word for 'hills' (singular form: ''kituumbi'', class 7/8). ''Ki-'' is a Bantu [[noun class]] prefix attached to nouns of the class that includes languages (cf. Kiswahili, Kikongo).<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
* Odden, David (1996) ''The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatuumbi''. (The Phonology of the World's Languages). Oxford: Clarendon Press.<br />
* Krumm, B. (1912) ''Grundriss einer Grammatik des Kimatuumbi.'' Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalischen Sprachen, III.<br />
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