Zanaki (''Ikizanaki'') is a
Bantu language
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.
The t ...
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 and ...
. It is spoken by the
Zanaki people
The Zanaki are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group from the heart of Mara Region, Tanzania, to the east of Lake Victoria. The group is subdivided into the Birus and the Buturis.
Notable people
*Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), the founder and first pre ...
of
Musoma and was the first language of Tanzanian president
Julius Nyerere,
son of the King Burito Nyerere (1860–1942).
References
Languages of Tanzania
Great Lakes Bantu languages
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