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...
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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...
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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...
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related groups: Chagga Taita Pare Taveta Meru Arusha Mbugu As it occurred throughout East Africa, the people in this corridor have been poorly characterised...
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dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed...
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babati etc Mous, Maarten. The Making of a Mixed Language: The Case of Ma'a/Mbugu. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003, ISBNÂ 978-90-272-5248-7...
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Swahili; however, Swahili is not mutually intelligible with Sambaa. The Mbugu, an immigrant Cushitic pastoralist group, threatened the small clan-chiefdoms...
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some sources Zigula (Wazigua in Swahili) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic people hailing from far northern Pwani Region and western southern Tanga Region...
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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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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...
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