Taveta language

Taveta
Taveta
Native to	Kenya
Ethnicity	Taveta
Native speakers	21,000 (2009 census)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Pare-Taveta Taveta; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tvs
Glottolog	tave1240
Guthrie code	G.21

Taveta or Tubeta is a Northeast Coast Bantu language spoken by the Taveta people of Kenya. It is closely related to Pare (called Chasu by speakers).

Taveta was confused with Dawida by Jouni Maho in his (2009) classification.^[2]