Kwavi is the dialect of

Maasai Maasai may refer to: * Maasai people *Maasai language * Maasai mythology * MAASAI (band) See also * Masai (disambiguation) * Massai Massai (also known as: Masai, Massey, Massi, Mah–sii, Massa, Wasse, Wassil or by the nickname "Big Foot" Mas ...

spoken by the

Kwavi people The Kwavi people were a community commonly spoken of in the folklore of a number of Kenyan and Tanzanian communities that inhabited regions of south-central Kenya and north-central Tanzania at various points in history. The conflicts between the Ua ...

(a.k.a. Parakuyo or Baraguyu) of

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

. According to Hurskainen (1994), "The Parakuyo (earlier also called Ilparakuyo, Baraguyu, Kwavi, Lumbwa, and Iloikop) are a Maa-speaking ethnic group scattered over a large area in the northeastern and central parts of

", while Beidelman (1960) confirms that "Kwavi" and "Baraguyu" are synonymous.

Bibliography

* T.O. Beidelman. "The Baraguyu", in ''Tanganyika notes and records'', 1960, no. 55, p. 244–278. *

Arvi Hurskainen Arvi Johannes Hurskainen (born January 25, 1941 in Kitee) is a Finnish scholar of language technology and linguistics. Since 1985 he has developed rule-based language technology mainly for Swahili, but also for other languages, including machine ...

. "Plant taxonomy of the Parakuyo (Tanzania)" in ''Nordic Journal of African Studies'', 1994, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 117–162 * Karsten Legère. 2002
The "Languages of Tanzania" Project: background, resources and perspectives
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