Luguru is a Bantu language spoken by the Luguru people of the Morogoro region and the Pwani region of Tanzania. The name is also spelled Lughuru, Lugulu...
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Tanzania. They speak the Bantu Luguru language and are native to the Uluguru Mountains that are named after them. In 2001, the Luguru population was estimated...
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Luguru may refer to: the Luguru people the Luguru language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Luguru. If an internal link...
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000) Hehe (800,000) Luguru (700,000) Bena (600,000) Shambala (650,000) Nyaturu (600,000) Swahili and English are official languages Luganda (9,295,300)...
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Swahili is not the major threat to Kami – the regional language Luguru is. Luguru is the major language in the Morogoro region, with 403,602 speakers. In the...
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Mzungu (category Articles containing Luguru-language text)
Malawi's Chichewa language. The possessive kizungu (or chizungu) translated literally means "of the wanderers". It has now come to mean "language of the wanderers"...
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changes in their cultural language. The Zaramo as they are known today are made up of clans that migrated from the Kutu and the Luguru around 1700. Their common...
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million, 2009) Haya (1.94 million, 2016) Hehe (1.21 million, 2016) Iramba Luguru (404 thousand, 2009) Makonde (1.47 million, 2016) Ngoni Nyakyusa Nyamwezi...
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Vidunda, Kaguru, Luguru, Kutu, Kami, Zaramo, Kwere, Doe The Ruvu languages are 60–70% similar lexically. Mbugu (Ma'a) is a mixed language based largely on...
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Kami people (section Extinction of Kami language)
Muslim. The Kami language is a Bantu language, sharing substantial lexical similarities with Kutu, Kwere, Zaramo, Doe, and Luguru. The language is one of the...
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District. Many Kwere are believed to be closely linked to the Zaramo and Luguru people, with whom they coexist. In 1987, the Kwere population was estimated...
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some Zigula claim affinity with the Bondei and Shambala communities. Some Luguru and Shambala leaders are thought to have had ties to the Zigula in the past...
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(Uha, Ha territory) with other kingdoms: Heru, Bushingo (Ushingo), Ruguru (Luguru), Muhambwe and Buyungu, all of them in Kigoma Region, Tanzania. Scherer...
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(Zaramo, Luguru, Kaguru, Ngulu): East Central Africa Part XVI. New York: Routledge. p. 115. ISBN 9781315309613. "Ethnologue report for language code: heh"...
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Tanzania (Zaramo, Luguru, Kaguru, Ngulu): East Central Africa Part XVI. New York: Routledge. p. 101. ISBN 9781315309613. "Sagala Language (SBM) – L1 & L2...
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Buha kingdoms: Heru/Oha Nkalinzi/Manyovu Bushingo/Ushingo Muhambwe Buyungu Luguru/Ruguru Ujiji/Bujiji Bushubi Buhaya: Kyamutwara later Lesser Kyamtwara Kiziba...
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They are bordered to the east by the Ngulu people, to the southeast by the Luguru, to the west by the Gogo of Dodoma, and to the south by the Sagara. They...
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conflicts, a fact attributed to the unifying influence of the Swahili language. The ethnic groups mentioned here are mostly differentiated based on ethnolinguistic...
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languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström, and following the Guthrie classification. Bantu languages Guthrie classification of Bantu languages Classification...
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Cultures website. The dataset is available to view on the Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment (D-PLACE). Human Relations Area Files Murdock...
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summarised the early findings. It's uncertain how much the Kutu resemble the Luguru and Zaramo peoples. During European colonial times, their region had colonies...
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This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with R. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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Morogoro Urban District (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
headquarters) Chamwino Kauzeni Kichangani Kihonda Kihonda Magorofani Kilakala (Luguru word meaning:Kilchoungua in SWAHILI) Kingo Kingolwira Kiwanja cha Ndege...
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List of kingdoms and empires in African history (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
by outside traders) Nkalinzi/Manyovu Bushingo/Ushingo Muhambwe Buyungu Luguru/Ruguru Bujiji/Ujiji (Jiji people) Bushubi: 381–393 Buzimba Kingdom (pre...
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location where the spoken language is not one the anthropologist is familiar with, they will usually also learn that language. This allows the anthropologist...
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Morogoro Region (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
Morogoro Region is the ancestral homeland to the following people groups: Luguru, Ngulu, kutu, Sagara, Vidunda, Kaguru, Mbunga, Ndamba, Pogoro and Ngindo...
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Ngoma music (category CS1 Swahili-language sources (sw))
Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam. Pels, P. (2000). "Kizungu Rhythms: Luguru Chtistianity as Ngoma". In Gunderson, Frank D. (ed.). Mashindano!: Competitive...
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Zaramo people (section Language)
number of related peoples such as the Kaguru, Kwere, Kutu, Kami, Sagara, Luguru, Ngulu and Vidunda peoples. The majority of the peoples of Tanganyika were...
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Tanzania. Masterworks of African Sculpture (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
US-dollars."Kaguru-Luguru Throne Chair". Archived from the original on 2024-12-19. Retrieved 2025-01-03. "A Superb and Rare Luguru Throne, Tanzania"....
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Tanzanian trough zithers, labeled by peoples, including Gogo, Hehe, Kaguru, Luguru, Zaramo, Kwere, and Zigua. Sandawe people, trough zither in the British...
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