Although there are over two million Tumbuka speakers and the language is widely spoken in the north of Malawi, there have been very few linguistic studies done of Tumbuka.

Mphande, Lupenga 1989 A Phonological Analysis of the Ideophone in Chitumbuka. Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas.  (southern dialect)

Turner, William Y. 1952  Tumbuka - Tonga - English Dictionary. Church of Scotland Mission. Blantrye, Nyasaland: The Hetherwick Press.

Vail, H. Leroy 1971 The Noun Classes of Tumbuka. African Studies 30 (1): 35-59. (Henga-Nkhamanga dialect)

Vail, Hazen Leroy 1972 Aspects of the Tumbuka Verb. Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin.

Also see Lee Bickmore's web site at the University of Albany.

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