Fipa (Fipa:Ichifipa) is aBantu language ofTanzania. It is spoken by theFipa people, who live on theUfipa plateau in theRukwa Region of South WestTanzania betweenLake Tanganyika andLake Rukwa. The ethnic group of theFipa people is larger than the group ofFipa language speakers. On the Tanzanian side, people who speakMambwe-Lungu may identify as Fipa and consider their language to be a dialect of Fipa.Lungu andMambwe are also spoken in Zambia where they are considered languages and their speakers are considered to be ethnic groups in their own right, although linguists consider Lungu and Mambwe to be dialects of a single language. There are three dialects: Milanzi (also referred to as IchiSukuuma), Kwa (Ichikwa) and Nkansi.

Maho (2009) classifies M.131 Kulwe (Kuulwe, no ISO code) as closest to Fipa. Otherwise the dialects are Milanzi (Fipa-Sukuma,Icisukuuma), South Fipa, Kandaasi (Icikandaasi), Siiwa (Icisiiwa), Nkwaamba (Icinkwaamba), Kwa (Icikwa), Kwaafi (Icikwaafi), Ntile (Icintile, Cile), Peemba (Icipeemba).

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• SIL sociolinguistic survey of the Fipa language community

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