The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are the
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
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spoken along the coast of
Tanzania
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Kenya
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, and including inland Tanzania as far as
Dodoma
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[Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, ''The Swahili''] In
Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones G and E.
The languages, or clusters, are:
*Pare-Taveta (G20+E70):
**Pareic
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Pare
Pare may refer to:
People with the name
* Emmett Paré (1907-1973), tennis player
* Pare, former member of Kotak, an Indonesian band
* Pare Lorentz (1905-1992), American film director
* Richard Pare (born 1948), English photographer
* Paré, a ...
,
Mbugu
Maʼa is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
The Mbugu people speak two divergent register (sociolinguistics), registers, which have been treated as separate languages by some authorities (e.g. Tucker and Bryan): Mbugu or "Normal Mbugu" (autonym kiM ...
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Taveta
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Sabaki (G40+E70):
Swahili,
Nyika Nyika is a Swahili word meaning "bush" or "hinterland" (of the East African coast). More specifically, it can refer to:
* Mijikenda peoples, nine ethnic groups in coastal Kenya (also: ''Wanyika'')
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Comorian ''etc.''
*Seuta (G20+G30):
Shambala,
Bondei
The Bondei People ( Swahili: ''Wabondei'') are a Bantu ethnic group based in Pangani District in east Tanga Region in northeastern Tanzania. Bondei speak a Bantu language and are related to the Shambaa ethnic group..
The name "Bondei" was given t ...
,
Zigula (
Mushungulu),
Ngulu
*Ruvu (G30+G10):
Gogo,
Sagara Sagara may refer to:
People
* Sagara (ethnic group), a people of Tanzania
* Sagara (Vedic king), Ikshvaku dynasty
* Sagara clan, a clan of 16th century Japan
* Sekihotai (Sagara Souzou), a leader of the Sekihotai military unit during the Boshin ...
,
Vidunda,
Kaguru
The Kaguru, or Kagulu, are a Bantu ethno-linguistic group based in central Tanzania. The population of Kaguru was predicted to be 217,000 in 1987.
Geography
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,
Luguru,
Kutu Kutu may refer to:
*The Kutu people of Tanzania
**Kutu language, the native language of the Kutu people
Places
*Kutu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a town and territory
*Kutu (island), a municipality in the Federated States of Micronesia
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,
Kami
are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...
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Zaramo
The Zaramo people, also referred to as Dzalamo or Saramo, are a Bantu ethnic group native to the central coast of Tanzania, particularly Dar es Salaam Region and Pwani Region. They are the largest ethnic group in and around Dar es Salaam, the for ...
,
Kwere,
Doe
The Ruvu languages are 60–70% similar lexically.
Mbugu
Maʼa is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
The Mbugu people speak two divergent register (sociolinguistics), registers, which have been treated as separate languages by some authorities (e.g. Tucker and Bryan): Mbugu or "Normal Mbugu" (autonym kiM ...
(Ma'a) is a mixed language based largely on Pare.
Notes
Languages of Kenya
Languages of Tanzania
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