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Suba-Simbiti is a Bantu language spoken in the Mara Region of Tanzania. Linguistically, Suba-Simbiti should be classified, like its closest relative Kuria, as Bantoid (a branch of Niger-Congo) and under the divisions of Southern Bantoid, Narrow Bantu, Central, E and Ragoli-Kuria Group (E.40). Suba-Simbiti (ISO code [ssc]), which is not mentioned as a separate language in previous classifications of Bantu languages, should not be confused with Suba of Kenya (ISO code [sxb]), which is referred to as E403 (J) in Maho’s (2003) update of Guthrie’s classification.