In Kenya, Kamba is generally spoken in four counties: Machakos, Kitui, Makueni, and Kwale.
[4] Kamba has lexical similarities to other Bantu languages such as Kikuyu, Meru, and Embu, of whom together they form the GEMA community.
The Swedish National Museums of World Culture holds field recordings of kamba language made by Swedish ethnographer Gerhard Lindblom in 1911–12.
[5] Lindblom used phonograph cylinders to record songs along with other means of documentation in writing and photography.
He also gathered objects, and later presented his work in The Akamba in British East Africa (1916).