It is spoken in northwestern Zimbabwe, particularly in the town of Hwange,[2][3] with a few speakers in northeastern Botswana.
It is either classified as a dialect of Kalanga or as a closely related language.
[4] The Zimbabwean constitution, in particular the Education Act, as amended in 1990, recognises Nambya and Kalanga as separate indigenous languages.
It has a simple 5 vowel system and a typical Bantu consonant-vowel (CV) syllable structure.
[4] Like many Bantu languages, Nambya has a highly agglutinative morphology.