ISO 639-3 · cwecwe
Niger–Congo family
Kwere
Kwere is a language of the Northeast Coast Bantu branch (Niger–Congo), spoken in Tanzania. Wikidata counts about 98,000 speakers.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
cwe- Glottocode
kwer1261- Family
- Niger–Congo
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- Wikipedia
- 10 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
10levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Kwere |
|---|---|
| Also called | Kwere language |
| All speakers | 98,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Niger–Congo to Kwere
The branches above Kwere, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Tanzania
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeswhKiswahiliNiger–Congo · 98.3 m1 · NationalswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mrunKirundiNiger–Congo · 8.8 m1 · NationalvmwMakhuwaNiger–Congo · 7.4 m5 · DevelopingtumTumbukaNiger–Congo · 7 m4 · EducationalsukSukumaNiger–Congo · 5.4 m5 · DevelopingayhHadhrami ArabicAfroasiatic · 4.5 m6a · VigorousluoDholuoNilo-Saharan · 3 m5 · Developing