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...

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...

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

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

Swahili; however, Swahili is not mutually intelligible with Sambaa. The Mbugu, an immigrant Cushitic pastoralist group, threatened the small clan-chiefdoms...

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...

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...

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...