The Mbugu people, also known as the Va'maa, Ma'a (Wambugu, in Swahili) are an ethnic Bantu and linguistic group hailing from western Usambara Mountains...

The Mbugu people speak two divergent registers, which have been treated as separate languages by some authorities (e.g. Tucker and Bryan): Mbugu or "Normal...

related groups: Chagga Taita Pare Taveta Meru Arusha Mbugu As it occurred throughout East Africa, the people in this corridor have been poorly characterised...

Usangi to the south. The general interaction of the Pare people with the Ma'a (Va-ma'a) or Mbugu people (an ethnic group with Cushitic origins) has also led...

dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed...

babati etc Mous, Maarten. The Making of a Mixed Language: The Case of Ma'a/Mbugu. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003, ISBN 978-90-272-5248-7...

sub-chiefs of the Kilindi in check. Cattle-keeping had been vital to both the Mbugu and Nango, and the Masai had threatened their lives and means of subsistence...

ethnic Digo living in Kenya and 88,000 (1987 estimate) in Tanzania. Digo people, nearly all Muslims, speak the Digo language, called Chidigo by speakers...

some sources Zigula (Wazigua in Swahili) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic people hailing from far northern Pwani Region and western southern Tanga Region...

lexical words used in a register of Maasai, similar to the mixed language Mbugu. Asa is usually classified as Cushitic, most closely related to Kw'adza...

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framework of Maa grammar, a strategy that is analogous to the making of Mbugu, a mixed language of the Usambara mountains in Tanzania. Yaaku at Ethnologue...

pdf Thomason, Sarah Grey. GENETIC RELATIONSHIP AND THE CASE OF MA'A (MBUGU), Studies in African Linguistics. 14.2. University of Pittsburgh, 1983....

genetic relationships were: 1. Hutu, Sukuma, Nyaturu and Sandawe, 2. Sara, Mbugu and Sango, 3. South Arabians, Libyans and Egyptians, 4. Amhara, Oromo, Beja...

Yaaku, Dahalo, Aasax, Kw'adza, Boon, Ongota and the Cushitic component of Mbugu (Ma'a). There is a wide range of opinions as to how the languages are interrelated...

Dhaiso and the Segeju are also historically linked to the Kamba people of kenya. Dhaiso people are mostly farmers or, if on the coast, fishermen. Farmers commonly...

The Ngulu people, also known as the Geja, Kingulu, Nguru, Nguu, Wayomba, (Swahili collective: Wangulu) are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group hailing from Southern...

Like much of the district, the ward is the ancestral home of the Digo people. The ward is home to these educational institutions: Kasera Primary School...

Like much of the district, the ward is the ancestral home of the Digo people and Segeju. The ward is home to these educational institutions: Manza Primary...

September 2019. The first communities that called Tanga home were the Digo peoples and the Swahili states of the 11th to 16th Centuries. However, the earliest...

The Bondei People (Swahili: Wabondei) are a Bantu ethnic group based in Muheza District and Pangani District of eastern Tanga Region in Tanzania. The Bondei...

Like much of the district, the ward is the ancestral home of the Digo people and Segeju. The ward is home to these educational institutions: Moa Primary...

city. Additional wards in 2022: Magaoni Masiwani Myanjani Segeju and Digo people, who have long subsisted off the land and the water, were the first to settle...

will benefit (spillover effects). According to oral history, The Swahili people from the North, led by Chief Mwinyi Ulenge, were the original inhabitants...

Kilindi District. Other smaller ethnic groups in Tanga Region include Mbugu and Pare people. More recently in history, immigrants from other parts of the country...

bushes completely covers the island. Since there is no legal protection, people are chopping down the forests for fire wood. Additionally, the island has...

Like much of the district, the ward is the ancestral home of the Bondei people. The ward is home to these educational institutions: Magila Primary School...

District Pangani District Tanga District Native Peoples Sambaa Zigua Digo Dhaiso Segeju Bondei Ngulu Mbugu National Historic Sites Tongoni Ruins Bombo Kaburi...

speaking the Segeju language. The Segeju have kinship relations with the Digo people, who are part of the nine tribes of the Mijikenda. Additionally, the Segeju...

District Pangani District Tanga District Native Peoples Sambaa Zigua Digo Dhaiso Segeju Bondei Ngulu Mbugu National Historic Sites Tongoni Ruins Bombo Kaburi...