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Rwa (Kirwa) is a Bantu language of the North Pare mountains in northeastern Tanzania, the largest variety of the Pare cluster (E.30 in Guthrie classification). The Pare people are linguistically and culturally distinct from but neighbors to the Chaga (cluster including Machame jmc, Old Moshi old, Vunjo) of Kilimanjaro to the south. Rwa preserves typical Bantu tone-and-noun-class features alongside ~10 noun classes and an active morphological aspect system. Bible translation work since the 1990s has yielded standardized literacy materials, with the Rwa New Testament published 2010s.