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Nyamwezi

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Nyamwezi

Summary

Nyamwezi is a language[1]. Nyamwezi ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (57 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nyamwezi is in the country of Tanzania[3].
  • Nyamwezi's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Nyamwezi's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Nyamwezi is a type of Sukuma-Nyamwezi[6].
  • Nyamwezi's writing system is recorded as Latin script[7].
  • Nyamwezi's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Nyamwezi language[8].
  • Nyamwezi's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+980000'}[9].
  • Nyamwezi's indigenous to is recorded as Kigoma Region[10].
  • Nyamwezi's indigenous to is recorded as Rukwa Region[11].
  • Nyamwezi's indigenous to is recorded as Tabora Region[12].
  • Nyamwezi's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/NYM[13].
  • Nyamwezi's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 6a Vigorous[14].

Why It Matters

Nyamwezi ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (57 views/month).[2] Nyamwezi has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Nyamwezi is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Tanzania

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Instance of → language, modern language
    Aliases → —
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+980000'}
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007541126905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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