• Bena is a Bantu language spoken by the Bena people of the Iringa region of Tanzania. Voiceless sounds almost always occur as aspirated stops; [pʰ, tʰ...
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    Tanzanian sign languages are used. Major languages spoken in Tanzania include: Niger-Congo Bantu Bemba Bena (592 thousand, 2 009) Chaga Digo (166 thousand...
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  • Bena can refer to: Banna people, an ethnic group in Ethiopia Bena (ethnic group), ethnic group in Tanzania Bena language, language in the Bantu group,...
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  • The Bena are Bantu ethnolinguistic group based in the Njombe Region of south-central Tanzania who speak the Bantu Bena language. In 2001, the Bena population...
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    Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the...
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  • native name Kihehe [kihehe], is a Bantu language that is spoken by the Hehe people of the Iringa region of Tanzania, lying south of the Great Ruaha River...
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    stretches from the Nile Valley to northern Tanzania and into Nigeria and DR Congo, with the Songhay languages along the middle reaches of the Niger River...
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  • Gogo is a Bantu language spoken by the Gogo people of Dodoma Region in Tanzania. The language is spoken throughout Dodoma Region and into the neighbouring...
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    ethnic group's native language (if Bantu), or the Swahili prefix wa. Other groups: Ethnic groups of Tanzania "Makabila ya Tanzania". Archived from the original...
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    national language. Luba-Kasai is spoken in the East Kasai Region (Luba people) and Luba-Lulua is used in the West Kasai Region among the Bena Lulua people...
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  • called Kisangu, Kisango, Kirori, Eshisango, Rori, and Sango) is a language spoken in Tanzania by approximately 75,000 (1987) Sangu people. Sangu at Ethnologue...
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  • (D20) Great Lakes Bantu (zone J): Rwanda-Rundi, Ganda, etc. Bena–Kinga (G60) Sangu Hehe Bena Pangwa Kinga–Magoma Wanji Kisi ?Manda (N10) Columbus, Frederick...
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    population according to the 2002 Tanzanian census was 51,049. The name of the town come from "Makhambako" (singular Likhambako), a Bena word for bulls. This was...
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  • G63 may refer to: Bena language, a Bantu language of Tanzania Grumman G-63 Kitten I, an American experimental aircraft HMCS Haida (G63), a Royal Canadian...
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  • Gilbert Islands, Kiribati bez, the ISO 639-3 code for the language spoken by the Bena people in Tanzania Bez, part of an antler Betz (disambiguation) Béez This...
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    (800,000) Luguru (700,000) Bena (600,000) Shambala (650,000) Nyaturu (600,000) Swahili and English are official languages Luganda (9,295,300) Runyankore...
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  • Kisi is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Though only half or so of the Kisi people speak the language, use is vigorous where it is still spoken. Other phonemes:...
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  • Basimba people (category Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation from unknown language)
    applied the name to the whole group of the leopard totem clan, known as Bena Ngo in Zambia and Abe Ngo in Uganda. Before the creation of the Kingdom of...
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  • Kifanya (category Tanzania geography stubs)
    statistics- Tanzania, March 2013). Main activities within the local area are agriculture and timber industry. The indigenous tribe of the locality is Bena tribe...
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    over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria...
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  • Wanji, or Vwanji, is a Bantu language of Tanzania. The syllable structure of Vwanji is CV. Vwangi has twenty noun classes and six series of pronouns. Nouns...
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  • Lambya people (category Ethnic groups in Tanzania)
    to as the Ngulube group, which comprises Safwa, Bena, Kinga, Nyakyusa and Ndali of southern Tanzania and the Sukwa and Ngonde of Malawi. Ideally the traditions...
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  • Wanji people (category Ethnic groups in Tanzania)
    The wanji language is the composition of nearby languages like Sangu, Kinga, Nyakyusa, Safwa and Bena. WBI language at ethnologue.com[dead link] v t e...
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    Maji Maji Rebellion (category History of Tanzania by period)
    Africans against German colonial rule in German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania). The war was triggered by German colonial policies designed to force the...
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    Ifakara (redirect from Ifakara, Tanzania)
    Ifakara is a town in the Kilombero District, Morogoro Region, south central Tanzania. It is the headquarters of the Kilombero District administration and the...
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    250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and...
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    Iringa Region (Mkoa wa Iringa in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of 35,503 km2 (13,708 sq mi). The region...
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  • Ndamba people (category Ethnic groups in Tanzania)
    of Iringa Region, northeast of Bena, southeast of Hehe, west of Pogolo and southwest of Mbunga. The Chindamba language has a lexical similarity of 69%...
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  • others. Classic Bemba books include Uwauma Nafyala, Pano Calo and Imilimo ya bena Kale. Abantu bonse bafyalwa abalubuka nokulingana mu mucinshi nensambu. Balikwata...
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  • Martha Mvungi (category Tanzanian women writers)
    crystalized here...When my parents moved to live among my own people, the Bena, I heard even more variations of these same stories although the basic structures...
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