Yombe is a Tumbuka language spoken by the Yombe people of Zambia, a group that is part of the Tumbuka family of the Bantu people, within the Sub-Saharan African affinity branch. They speak Tumbuka as their primary language, with a number of speakers in Zambia of over 11,700. Their dialect slightly differs from the Senga dialect of Tumbuka which is also spoken in the country.

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