Nyamwezi is a major Bantu language of central Tanzania. It forms a dialect continuum with Sukuma, but is more distinct from it. Konongo and Ruwila are...

The Nyamwezi, or Wanyamwezi, are one of the Bantu groups of East Africa. They are the second-largest ethnic group in Tanzania.[citation needed] The Nyamwezi...

Look up Nyamwezi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nyamwezi may refer to: Nyamwezi people, of Tanzania Nyamwezi language, their Bantu language This disambiguation...

(Northerners) when speaking to Nyamwezi, but use Nyamwezi when speaking to anyone else. The groups can be called the Nyamwezi–Sukuma complex, for, while never...

Luguru (404 thousand, 2009) Makonde (1.47 million, 2016) Ngoni Nyakyusa Nyamwezi (1.47 million, 2016) Nyika Pare Rangi (410 thousand, 2007) Safwa (322 thousand...

391,679. The name "Tabora" (Nyamwezi language: Matoborwa) meaning sweet potatoes, a common food ingredient among the Nyamwezi people. Foreigners corrupted...

headman or leader of the recently established Nyamwezi colony. The Sandawe so hated Mtoro and the Nyamwezi settlers that they threw them out in 1902, seizing...

(Dawida; E70) – Sagalla Chaga languages (E60) Northeast Coast Bantu (G10-G40): Swahili (E70), etc. Takama: Sukuma–Nyamwezi (+ Konongo–Ruwila), Kimbu (F20)...

(Kichaga) (1.2+ million : 600,000 Mochi, 300,000+ Machame, 300,000+ Vunjo) Nyamwezi (1.0 million) Makonde (1.0 million) Ha (1.0 million) Nyakyusa (800,000)...

constitute a Bantu language of central Tanzania that is closely related to Nyamwezi – close enough to sometimes be counted as a dialect of Nyamwezi. Ruwila was...

of Urambo. The name "Urambo" (Nyamwezi language: ) meaning Home of the Urambo, a 19th century kingdom of the Nyamwezi people. In the 19th century, Urambo...

although Sukuma is very similar to Nyamwezi, speakers themselves do not accept that they make up a single language. Sukuma at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)...

dialect of Nyamwezi, most E50 languages (such as Kikuyu, Embu and Meru) and some J languages (such as Rwanda, Gusii and Kuria). In other languages the law...

traditional concepts of Mulungu as found in Kikuyu, Ruvu, and other cultures. A Nyamwezi myth about the departure of Mulungu from the Earth involves Mulungu being...

in Bantu (the case of Swahili and Nyamwezi)" (PDF). Africa & Asia (2). Department of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University: 4–26. Archived...

300,000.[1]. Their name was invented sometime in the 19th century by the Nyamwezi caravans passing through the area while it was still frontier territory...

Kimbu is a Bantu language of Tanzania. In 1992, use of Kimbu was declining but still in regular use in certain contexts. As of 2018, most children of Kimbu...

coast was Tippu Tip, who was the grandson of an enslaved African. The Nyamwezi slave traders operated under the leadership of Msiri and Mirambo. According...

areas further south call themselves Zigula, Makua, Yao, Nyassa, Ngindo, Nyamwezi, Mwera and other names, although the Somalis from Mogadishu called them...

With Munyigumba's death in 1878 or 1879, a civil war broke out and a Nyamwezi slave, married to Munyigumba's sister, was able to kill Munyigumba's brother...

languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström, and following the Guthrie classification. Bantu languages Guthrie classification of Bantu languages Classification...

established. Magomeni had a population density that was more than double that of Nyamwezi, although many Zaramo lived in Buguruni in the far west, which blended...

ethnic groups. The Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Chagga, and Haya peoples have more than 1 million members each.: 4  Over 100 languages are spoken in Tanzania, making...

ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in...

E732 Degere, E74 Taita] F10: F11 Tongwe, F12 Bende F20: F21 Sukuma, F22 Nyamwezi, F23 Sumbwa, F24 Kimbu, F25 Bungu F30: F31 Nilamba, F32 Remi, F33 Langi...

servant quarters, and outbuildings for slaves. The town was surrounded by Nyamwezi villages, whose people provided produce and caravan labor. In this period...

emphasizes the lowly position into which she was born. Her father, Saadi, was a Nyamwezi of Tabora, and her mother was from the Zigua of Tanga. Both parents worked...

neighbouring languages. Quick inspection of the vocabulary shows that Sisumbwa appears to be closer to Nyamwezi than to any other language in the group...

approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to 24 countries spread over a vast area from Central...

Adrian S. (2009). "Charting the Frontier: Indigenous Geography, Arab-Nyamwezi Caravans, and the East African Expedition of 1856-59". Victorian Studies...