Kamba

About Kamba

Kamba, or Kikamba, is the language of the Kamba people of eastern Kenya, spoken around Machakos, Kitui and Makueni. About 3.9 million people speak it. It is a Bantu language, related to Kikuyu, and most speakers also speak Swahili and English.

FamilyNiger-Congo, Bantu
Speakersabout 3.9 million (2009)
Where spokenKenya (Machakos, Kitui, Makueni)
ScriptLatin alphabet
Codekam (ISO 639-3)

Speaker number: Ethnologue (2009), via Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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