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List of ethnic groups in Tanzania

Index List of ethnic groups in Tanzania

This is a list of ethnic groups in Tanzania. [1]

153 relations: Akie people, Akiek people, Alagwa people, Arabian Peninsula, Arusha people, Asa people, Baloch people, Barabaig people, Bembe people, Bena people, Bende people, Bondei people, Bungu people, Burunge people, Chaga people, Chewa people, Datooga people, Dhaiso people, Digo people, Doe people, Ethnolinguistic group, Fipa people, Goa, Gogo people, Goma (people), Gorowa people, Gweno language, Ha people, Hadza people, Hangaza people, Haya people, Hehe people, Holoholo people, Hutu, Ikizu people, Ikoma people, Immigration, Indian subcontinent, Indigenous peoples of Africa, Iramba District, Iramba people, Iraqw people, Isanzu people, Jiji people, Jita people, Kabwa people, Kaguru people, Kahe language, Kamba people, Kami people, ..., Kara people (Tanzania), Kerewe people, Kikuyu people, Kimbu people, Kinga people, Kisankasa people, Kisi people, Konongo people, Kutu people, Kw'adza people, Kwavi people, Kwaya people, Kwifa people, Lambya people, Luguru people, Lungu people, Luo people (Kenya), Maasai people, Machinga people, Magoma people, Mahanji, Makonde people, Makua people, Makwe people, Malila people, Mambwe people, Manda people, Manyema, Matengo people, Matumbi people, Maviha people, Mbugu language, Mbugwe people, Mbulu, Mbunga people, Meru people, Mpoto people, Mwanga language, Mwanga people, Mwera people, Ndali people, Ndamba people, Ndendeule people, Ndengereko people, Ndonde people, Ngasa people, Ngindo people, Ngoni people, Ngulu people, Ngurimi people, Nindi people, Nyakyusa people, Nyambo language, Nyamwezi people, Nyanyembe tribe, Nyasa people, Nyiha people, Okiek people, Pangwa language, Pare people, Pimbwe language, Pogolo language, Rangi people, Refugee, Rufiji people, Rungwa people, Rwa people, Safwa people, Sagara people, Sandawe people, Sangu people, Segeju people, Shambaa people, Shirazi people, Shubi people, Sizaki people, Sonjo people, Spurious languages, Suba people (Tanzania), Sukuma people, Sumbwa people, Swahili people, Tanzania, Tetela language, The Kwere (Ngh'were) of Tanzania, Tongwe people, Tumbuka people, Turu people, Tutsi, Twa, Vidunda people, Vinza people, Wanda people, Wanji people, Ware people, Yaaku people, Yao people (East Africa), Zanaki people, Zaramo people, Zigula people, Zinza people, Zulu people, Zyoba people. Expand index (103 more) »

Akie people

The Akie (sometimes called Mosiro, which is an Akie clan name) are a Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic peoples living in western Arusha Region.

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Akiek people

The Akiek are an ethnic and linguistic group in Tanzania and Kenya, living in the Arusha Region in northern Tanzania and in southern Kenya, with an estimated population of 3,700 people.

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Alagwa people

The Alagwa or Chasi are an ethnic group based in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region in central Tanzania.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, ‘Arabian island’ or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, ‘Island of the Arabs’), is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate.

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Arusha people

The Arusha (Waarusha) people are an ethnic, indigenous and linguistic group based in Arusha Region in northern Tanzania.

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Asa people

The Assa are an ethnic group based on the Maasai Steppe in Manyara Region, Tanzania.

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Baloch people

The Baloch or Baluch (Balochi) are a people who live mainly in the Balochistan region of the southeastern-most edge of the Iranian plateau in Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, as well as in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Barabaig people

The Barabaig are a nomadic tribe of the Datooga people based in the northern volcanic highlands near Mount Hanang in Manyara Region, Tanzania, speaking the eponymous dialect of the Datooga language.

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Bembe people

The Bembe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania.

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Bena people

Not to be confused with the Banna people.

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Bende people

The Bende are an ethnolinguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania.

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Bondei people

The Bondei are an ethnic group based in the Usambara Mountains of Tanga Region in northeastern Tanzania.

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Bungu people

The Bungu are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Chunya District of Mbeya Region in south-western Tanzania.

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Burunge people

The Burunge are an ethnic group based in the Kondoa district of Dodoma Region in central Tanzania.

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Chaga people

The Chaga (also called Wachaga, Chagga, Jagga, Dschagga, Waschagga, or Wachagga) are Bantu-speaking indigenous Africans and the third largest ethnic group in Tanzania.

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Chewa people

The Chewa are a Bantu people of central and southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in Malawi.

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Datooga people

The Datooga, known as the Mang'ati in Swahili, are a pastoralist Nilotic people of Manyara Region, Arusha Region, Mara Region, and Singida Region of Tanzania.

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Dhaiso people

The Dhaiso, or Daiso, are an ethnic and linguistic group based at the foot of the Usambara Mountains in the Muheza District of Tanga Region in northeastern Tanzania.

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Digo people

The Digo are an ethnic and linguistic group based near the Indian Ocean coast between Mombasa in southern Kenya and Tanga in northern Tanzania.

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Doe people

The Doe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in northern coastal Tanzania, in the Bagamoyo District of Pwani Region.

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Ethnolinguistic group

An ethnolinguistic group (or ethno-linguistic group) is a group that is unified by both a common ethnicity and language.

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Fipa people

The Fipa (or Wafipa) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Sumbawanga Rural and Nkasi districts of Rukwa Region in southwestern Tanzania speaking the Fipa and Mambwe languages.

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Goa

Goa is a state in India within the coastal region known as the Konkan, in Western India.

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Gogo people

The Gogo (singular: mgogo, plural: Wagogo) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania.

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Goma (people)

Goma people (Swahili:Wagoma), (Khihoma:Bahoma), (Ebembe:Bakyobha) are the tribe located in the Kigoma Region in western Tanzania who also have the tendency to refer to themselves as Al ghamawiyyun in Arabic.

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Gorowa people

The Gorowa are an ethnic group inhabiting the Manyara and Dodoma regions in Tanzania.

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Gweno language

Gweno is a Bantu language spoken in the North Pare Mountains in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania.

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Ha people

The Ha, also called Waha (singular Muha) or Abaha, are an ethnic and linguistic group found in Kigoma Region in northwestern Tanzania bordering the Lake Tanganyika.

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Hadza people

The Hadza, or Hadzabe, are an indigenous ethnic group in north-central Tanzania, living around Lake Eyasi in the central Rift Valley and in the neighboring Serengeti Plateau.

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Hangaza people

The Hangaza are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania.

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Haya people

The Haya are an ethnic and linguistic tribe based in the Bukoba District, Muleba District and Karagwe District of Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania, East Africa.

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Hehe people

The Hehe (Swahili collective: Wahehe) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Iringa Region in south-central Tanzania, speaking the Bantu Hehe language.

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Holoholo people

The Holoholo people (also Horohoro or Kalanga) are an ethnic group that live around Kalemie city on Lake Tanganyika in the present-day Tanganyika Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and on the opposite shore of the lake in Tanzania.

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Hutu

The Hutu, also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic group native to African Great Lakes region of Africa, primarily area now under Burundi and Rwanda.

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Ikizu people

The Ikizu (or Ikiizo) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mara Region in northern Tanzania.

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Ikoma people

The Ikoma are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mara Region in northern Tanzania.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indigenous peoples of Africa

The indigenous people of Africa are those people of Africa whose way of life, attachment or claims to particular lands, and social and political standing in relation to other more dominant groups have resulted in their substantial marginalization within modern African states (namely "politically underprivileged group who have been an ethnic entity in the locality before the present ruling nation took over power").

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Iramba District

Iramba is one of the six districts of the Singida Region of central Tanzania.

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Iramba people

The Nilamba (also called Nyilamba) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Shinyanga Region in northern Tanzania.

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Iraqw people

The Iraqw or Irakw (also known as the Wambulu amongst Swahili speakers) are a Cushitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting the Great Lakes region of East Africa.

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Isanzu people

The Isanzu (Anyihanzu) are a Bantu ethno-linguistic group based in Iramba, Singida, Tanzania.

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Jiji people

Jiji refers to an ethnic and linguistic group based in Kigoma Region, Tanzania.

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Jita people

The Jita are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mara Region in northern Tanzania, on the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria.

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Kabwa people

The Kabwa are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mara Region in north-central Tanzania.

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Kaguru people

The Kaguru, or Kagulu, are an ethnic and linguistic group based in central Tanzania.

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Kahe language

The Kahe are an ethnic and linguistic group based southeast of Moshi in Kilimanjaro Region Tanzania.

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Kamba people

The Kamba or Akamba people are a Bantu ethnic group - or tribe - who live in the semi-arid formerly Eastern Province of Kenya stretching east from Nairobi to Tsavo and north up to Embu, Kenya.

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Kami people

The Kami are an ethnic and linguistic group in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

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Kara people (Tanzania)

The Kara are an ethnic and linguistic group mainly based in the Ukerewe District, in the Tanzanian section of Lake Victoria (Ukara Island, Ukerewe Island, southeastern shore of the lake).

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Kerewe people

The Kerewe (locally: Wakerewe) are an ethnic and linguistic group based on Ukerewe Island in the Tanzanian section of Lake Victoria.

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Kikuyu people

The Kikuyu (also Akikûyu/Agikuyu/Gikuyu) is the largest ethnic group in Kenya.

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Kimbu people

The Kimbu are an ethnic and linguistic group from Mbeya Region, Tanzania.

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Kinga people

The Kinga are an ethnic and linguistic group from Njombe Region, Tanzania, in the great Kipengere Range (formerly known as Livingstone Mountains) northeast of Lake Malawi.

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Kisankasa people

The Kisankasa are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Arusha Region and Mara Region in northern Tanzania.

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Kisi people

The Kisi are an ethnic and linguistic group from Njombe Region, Tanzania, on the northwestern shore of Lake Malawi.

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Konongo people

The Konongo are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania.

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Kutu people

The Kutu are a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group based in the Morogoro Region of central Tanzania.

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Kw'adza people

The Kw'adza, also known as the Qwadza, were an ethnic group based in the Mbulu District of Manyara Region, Tanzania.

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Kwavi people

The Kwavi are a pastoralist ethnic and linguistic group based in Tanzania, with a 1957 census population of 7,378.

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Kwaya people

The Kwaya are an ethnic and lingo group based in the Mara Region of northern Tanzania, on the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria.

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Kwifa people

The Kwifa are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Tanzania.

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Lambya people

The Lambya, also known as the Nkoya, are an ethnic and linguistic group based along the border of northwestern Malawi and in Mbeya Region, Tanzania.

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Luguru people

The Luguruare a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group from Pwani Region and Morogoro Region in Tanzania.

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Lungu people

The Lungu people (also known as Rungu or Tabwa) are an ethnic and linguistic group living primarily on the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika, on the Marungu massif in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in southwestern Tanzania and northeastern Zambia.

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Luo people (Kenya)

The Luo (also called Joluo or Jonagi/Onagi, singular Jaluo, Jaonagi or Joramogi/Nyikwaramogi, meaning "Ramogi's heirs") are an ethnic group in western Kenya, northern Uganda, and in Mara Region in northern Tanzania.

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Maasai people

Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

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Machinga people

The Machinga are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Lindi Region on the southern Indian Ocean coast of Tanzania.

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Magoma people

The Magoma are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Makete District of Iringa Region in southern Tanzania.

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Mahanji

The Mahanji are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Makete District of Njombe Region in southern Tanzania.

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Makonde people

The Makonde are an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique.

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Makua people

The Makua people, also known as Makhuwa, are a southeastern African ethnic group predominantly found in north Mozambique and southern border provinces of Tanzania such as the Mtwara Region.

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Makwe people

The Makwe are an ethnic and linguistic group based on the Indian Ocean coast in northern Mozambique and southern Tanzania.

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Malila people

The Malila are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mbeya Region in south-western Tanzania.

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Mambwe people

The Mambwe are an ethnic and linguistic group from Rukwa Region, Tanzania and northeastern Zambia.

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Manda people

The Manda are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Ludewa District in the Iringa Region of southern Tanzania, along the eastern shore of Lake Malawi.

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Manyema

Manyema (Una-Ma-Nyema, eaters of flesh), a powerful and, in the past, warlike Bantu people in the southeast of the Congo basin and in the Kigoma Region of Western Tanzania.

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Matengo people

The Matengo are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mbinga District,Kurosaki, p.20 Ruvuma Region in southern Tanzania.

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Matumbi people

The Matumbi are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Lindi Region in southern Tanzania, on the banks of the Ruvuma River.

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Maviha people

The Maviha are an ethnic and linguistic group based along the border between Tanzania and Mozambique.

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Mbugu language

Mbugu, or Ma’a, is a mixed language of Tanzania.

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Mbugwe people

The Mbugwe are a Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic group based in the Babati District of Manyara Region and in south western Arusha Region.

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Mbulu

Mbulu is a town in Tanzania and the capital of the Mbulu District.

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Mbunga people

The Mbunga are an ethnic and linguistic Bantu group from Iringa Region and Morogoro Region in Tanzania.

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Meru people

The Meru, Amîîrú, "Ameru" or Ngaa people are a Bantu ethnic group that inhabit the Meru region of Kenya on the fertile lands of north and eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, in the former Eastern Province of Kenya.

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Mpoto people

The Mpoto are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Mbinga District of Ruvuma Region in southern Tanzania, along the northeast shore of Lake Malawi.

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Mwanga language

Mwanga, or Namwanga (Nyamwanga), is a Bantu language spoken by the Mwanga people in the Northern Province of Zambia (mainly in the districts of Isoka and Nakonde) and in Mbeya Region, Tanzania.

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Mwanga people

Winamwanga (also known as Namwanga or Nyamwanga) are found in northern Zambia and southwestern Tanzania.

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Mwera people

The Mwera people are an African ethnic and linguistic group.

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Ndali people

The Ndali are an ethnic and linguistic group from Mbeya Region, Tanzania and northern Malawi.

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Ndamba people

The Ndamba is an ethnic and linguistic group based in south-central Tanzania whose population was 79,000 in 1987.

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Ndendeule people

The Ndendeule are an ethnic and linguistic group from Ruvuma Region, Tanzania.

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Ndengereko people

The Ndengereko are an ethnic and linguistic group from Coast Region, Tanzania.

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Ndonde people

The Ndonde, or Ndonde Hamba, are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Nachingwea District, in the Lindi Region of southern Tanzania.

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Ngasa people

The Ngasa are an ethnic and linguistic group based on the eastern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania.

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Ngindo people

The Ngindo are an ethnic and linguistic group based in southern Pwani Region and northern Lindi Region in Tanzania.

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Ngoni people

The Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in the present-day Southern African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.

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Ngulu people

The Ngulu people, also known as the Geja, Kingulu, Nguru, Nguu, Wayomba, (Swahili collective: Wangulu) are an ethnic and linguistic group from Dodoma Region, Tanga Region and Morogoro Region in Tanzania.

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Ngurimi people

The Ngurimi are an ethnic and linguistic group based in northern Tanzania near the border with Kenya.

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Nindi people

The Nindi are an astari putri group based in southern Tanzania, in the Songea District of Ruvuma Region close to the border with Mozambique.

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Nyakyusa people

The Nyakyusa (also called the Sokile, Ngonde or Nkonde) are an African ethnic and linguistic group who live in the fertile mountains of southern Tanzania and northern Malawi—former German East Africa.

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Nyambo language

The Nyambo, or Ragwe, are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Karagwe District of Kagera Region in far northwestern Tanzania.

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Nyamwezi people

The Nyamwezi, or Wanyamwezi, are one of the Bantu groups of Southeast Africa and the second-largest of over 120 ethnic groups in Tanzania.

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Nyanyembe tribe

The Nyanyembe are a tribe of the Nyamwezi people of northern Tanzania.

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Nyasa people

The Nyasa are a people of southeastern Africa, concentrated mainly in Malawi, southwestern Tanzania and parts of northern Mozambique.

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Nyiha people

The Nyiha are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mbeya Region, Tanzania and northeastern Zambia.

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Okiek people

The Okiek (Ogiek), sometimes called the Ogiek or Akiek (although the term Akiek sometimes refers to a distinct subgroup), are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Northern Tanzania, Southern Kenya (in the Mau Forest), and Western Kenya (in the Mount Elgon Forest).

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Pangwa language

The Pangwa are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Kipengere Range on the eastern shore of Lake Malawi, in the Ludewa District of Njombe Region in southern Tanzania.

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Pare people

The Pare (pronounced "Pahray") people are members of an ethnic group indigenous to the Pare Mountains of northern Tanzania, part of the Kilimanjaro Region.

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Pimbwe language

The Pimbwe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Rukwa Region of western Tanzania, in the neighbourhood of Mpimbwe to the northwest of Lake Rukwa.

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Pogolo language

The Pogoro (also Pogolo) are an ethnic and linguistic peoples based in Iringa Region and Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

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Rangi people

The Rangi are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania.

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Refugee

A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (for more detail see legal definition).

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Rufiji people

The Rufiji are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the central coast of Tanzania, near the Rufiji River.

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Rungwa people

The Rungwa are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania.

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Rwa people

The Rwa, also known as the Wameru, are an ethnic and linguistic group located around Mount Meru in the Arusha Region of Tanzania.

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Safwa people

The Safwa are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the mountains of the Mbeya Region, Tanzania.

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Sagara people

The Sagara (or Sagala) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Morogoro Region, southern Dodoma Region, and parts of Iringa Region in Tanzania.

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Sandawe people

The Sandawe are an indigenous ethnic group of Southeast Africa, based in the Kondoa District of Dodoma Region in central Tanzania.

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Sangu people

The Sangu, at times called Rori (People of the Steppes), are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mbeya Region, Tanzania.

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Segeju people

The Segeju are an ethnic and linguistic group from Mkinga District, Tanga Region, Tanzania, between the city of Tanga and the Kenyan border.

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Shambaa people

The Shambaa people, also called the Sambaa, Shambala, Sambala or Sambara, are an East African ethnic and linguistic group.

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Shirazi people

The Shirazi people, also known as Mbwera, are an ethnic group inhabiting the Swahili coast and the nearby Indian Ocean islands that claim a mythic ancestry from Shiraz.

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Shubi people

The Shubi (also called Washubi) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Kagera Region, Tanzania; that speak the Shubi language.

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Sizaki people

The Sizaki are an ethnic and linguistic group based in north-western Tanzania, near Lake Victoria.

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Sonjo people

The Sonjo (native name Batemi) are an ethnic and lingusitic group inhabiting living some 30-40 miles west of Lake Natron in Arusha Region, Tanzania.

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Spurious languages

Spurious languages are languages that have been reported as existing in reputable works, while other research has reported that the language in question did not exist.

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Suba people (Tanzania)

The Suba of Tanzania are a community of people in Tarime District, Mara Region, Tanzania speaking mutually intelligible varieties of the Suba language.

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Sukuma people

The Sukuma are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern African Great Lakes region.

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Sumbwa people

The Sumbwa are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Bukombe District, Shinyanga Region in central Tanzania.

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Swahili people

The Swahili people (or Waswahili) are an ethnic and cultural group inhabiting East Africa.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Tetela language

Tetela (Otetela, Kitetela, Kikitatela), also Sungu, is a Bantu language of northern Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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The Kwere (Ngh'were) of Tanzania

The Kwere are a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group based in the Bagamoyo District, Pwani Region of coastal Tanzania.

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Tongwe people

The Tongwe are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Kigoma District, on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania.

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Tumbuka people

The Tumbuka, also called Tumboka, Kamanga, Batumbuka, Matumbuka, is an ethnic group found in Northern Malawi, Eastern Zambia and Southern Tanzania.

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Turu people

The Turu (Arimi, Wanyaturu) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Singida Region of north-central Tanzania who speak the Bantu Kinyaturu.

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Tutsi

The Tutsi, or Abatutsi, are a social class or ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region.

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Twa

The Twa (Batwa, also Cwa IPA) are a group of African Pygmy (Central African foragers) peoples, tribes or castes who live interdependently with agricultural Bantu populations, providing the farming population with game in exchange for agricultural products.

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Vidunda people

The Vidunda are a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group based in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

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Vinza people

The Vinza (Swahili: Wavinza) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Kigoma Region, Tanzania.

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Wanda people

The Wanda are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mbeya Region and southern Rukwa Region of Tanzania.

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Wanji people

The Wanji are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Makete District, in the Kipengere Mountains of Njombe Region in southern Tanzania.

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Ware people

The Ware were a Bantu ethnic/ linguistic group in Tanzania.

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Yaaku people

The Yaaku, also called Mukogodo-Maasai, are a people living in the Mukogodo forest west of Mount Kenya, a division of the Laikipia County of The former Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

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Yao people (East Africa)

The Yao people, waYao, are a major Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based at the southern end of Lake Malawi, who played an important part in the history of Southeast Africa during the 19th century.

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Zanaki people

The Zanaki are an ethnic and linguistic group from the heart of Mara Region, Tanzania, to the east of Lake Victoria.

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Zaramo people

The Zaramo people, also referred to as Dzalamo or Saramo, are an East African ethnic group found along the coast of Tanzania, particularly in its Pwani Region.

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Zigula people

The Zigula are a Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic people from northern Pwani Region and southern Tanga Region.

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Zinza people

The Zinza are a Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic peoples from the southwestern Islands on Lake Victoria.

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Zulu people

The Zulu (amaZulu) are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in South Africa, with an estimated 10–12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.

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Zyoba people

The Zyoba are an ethnic and linguistic group based near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo who speak the Joba language.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_Tanzania

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