Matuumbi, also known asKimatuumbi andKimatumbi, is a language spoken inTanzania in the Kipatimu region of theKilwa District, south of the Rufiji river. It is aBantu language, P13 inGuthrie's classification. Kimatuumbi is closely related to the Ngindo, Rufiji and Ndengereko languages. It is spoken by about 70,000 people, according to theEthnologue.

Matuumbi is the augmentative plural of the Kimatuumbi word for 'hills' (singular form:kituumbi, class 7/8).Ki- is a Bantunoun class prefix attached to nouns of the class that includes languages (cf. Kiswahili, Kikongo).

• Odden, David (1996)The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatuumbi. (The Phonology of the World's Languages). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Krumm, B. (1912)Grundriss einer Grammatik des Kimatuumbi. Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalischen Sprachen, III.

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