TANZANIA
The former colonial territories of Tanganyika and Zanzibar gained their independence in 1962 and 1963, respectively. On 26 April 1964, they merged into one nation, the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Mwungano wa Tanzania).
Capital
Dodoma (since 1974)
Dar es Salaam (until 1974)
Population
c.33.000.000 (1995)
Official languages
English, Kiswahili
Other languages
Some 120 languages are spoken within the borders of Tanzania. The large majority of these (ca. 100) are Bantu languages. The others belong to the language families Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and (controversially) also Khoesan. A small number are unclassified. Immigrant languages from Europe and Asia can also be found.
Jouni Filip Maho
Göteborg University
Bonny Sands
Northern Arizona University
This is the web-appendix to The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography (publ. in the series Orientalia et africana gothoburgensia, v 17, 2002), compiled by Jouni Filip Maho (Göteborg) & Bonny Sands (Flagstaff AZ).
We will try our best to keep this website continually updated, and welcome any comments and corrections.
Last update: 21 July 2004.
| LANGUAGES AND PEOPLES OF TANZANIA: GENERAL |
The languages of Tanzania, according to SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Tanzania
"The 'Languages of Tanzania' project: background, resources and perspectives" by Karsten Legère (2002). From: Africa & Asia (Göteborg working papers on Asian and African languages and literatures), no 2, pp 163-186.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/aa02legere.pdf
The Comparative On-Line Bantu Dictionaries (CBOLD), hosted at Lyons (prev. at Berkeley), provide an easy web-access for searching in as well as downloading several Bantu dictionaries.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975) contains 120 thousand-wordlists for almost all Tanzanian Bantu languages. It is hosted at the CBOLD site in Lyons/Berkeley.
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr (click on TLS)
The UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages lists several Tanzanian languages. (The Africa index has been compiled by Bernd Heine and Matthias Brenzinger.)
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/index.html
"Bibliography of the South Asian Diaspora and East Africa: a partially annotated bibliography" by Andrew Mickleburgh.
coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_sasiadiaspora.html
Official website of Chama cha Viziwi Tanzania (CHAVITA)/Tanzania Association for the Deaf (TAD).
www.geocities.com/chavitahq/
The "Living encyclopedia for Tanzania" (by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania) includes several brief articles on various aspects of Tanzanian history and culture.
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/NEH/tz.html
Online version of Schnee's Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, originally published in 1919/20. Hosted at the University of Frankfurt-am-Main.
www.stub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/
A brief presentation of various materials produced by German missionaries in northern German East Africa.
www.uni-leipzig.de/~ifa/ma/2_pre.htm
Maps of most (all?) towns and cities in Tanzania. By the "Global Gazetteer version 2.1", Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.
www.fallingrain.com/world/TZ/
Web site of the University of Dar es Salaam.
www.udsm.ac.tz
Website of the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University in Dar es Salaam.
www.angelfire.com/mb/hkmu/
The official homepage of the Tanzanian Parliament. Contains much general info on Tanzania.
www.bungetz.org
Tanzanet: the Tanzanian electronic networking community.
tanzanet.org
"The Bantu languages/Les langues bantoues" is Jacky Maniacky's bilingual site dedicated to the study of the Bantu languages.
www.bantu.ovh.org
The Language Museum has collected samples of 2000 languages in the world. Several Tanzanian languages are represented.
www.language-museum.com
"yourDictionary.com" is a site specializing in collecting links to various web-accessible language resources. Many links to African language resources can be found here.
www.yourdictionary.com
Lots of links to various Tanzania-related websites. "Prepared by Karen Fung for the Information and Communication Technology Group (ICTG), African Studies Association, USA."
www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/tanzan.html
Another compilation of web links to Tanzanian sites, compiled by Mike Shand, University of Glasgow.
mshand.geog.gla.ac.uk/cartowww/tanzlinks.htm
| Aasax (South Cushitic) - extinct in Tanzania? |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=AAS
Aasax is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Aasax.html
| Alagwa/Wasi/Casi (South Cushitic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WBJ
Alagwa is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Alagwa.html
| Asu/Pare (Bantu G22) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ASA
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Asu.
www.language-museum.com/a/asu.htm
| Baloch (Indoiranian) |
An article on the Baloch in East Africa, by Abdulkadir Noormohamed.
www4.tpg.com.au/users/goshti/africabaloch.htm
| Bemba/Icibemba (Bantu M42) |
Not surveyed systematically. This is really a Zambian language, but there may be a very small community of Bemba-speakers in south-western Tanzania.
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Bemba dictionary (Mann 1995), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=BEM
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Bemba.
www.language-museum.com/b/bemba.htm
| Bena/Ikibena (Bantu G63) |
A 1000-wordlist of Bena is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=BEZ
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Bena.
www.language-museum.com/b/bena.htm
| Bende/Kibende (Bantu F12) |
A 1000-wordlist of Bende is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=BDP
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Bende.
www.language-museum.com/b/bende.htm
| Bondei (Bantu G24) |
Two 1000-wordlist of Bondei are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
Several Bondei interviews/texts, collected by Justin Willis of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.
britac3.britac.ac.uk/institutes/eafrica/Bondei/
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=BOU
| Bungu/Wungu (Bantu F25) |
Two 1000-wordlists of Bungu (file names: Bungu & Wungu) are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WUN
| Burunge (South Cushitic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=BDS
Burunge is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Burunge.html
| Chaga/Dschagga (Bantu E62) |
At least fourteen 1000-wordlists of Chaga (file names: Keni.unn, Kibosho, Kibosho.unn, Kimochi.unn, Kiseri, Kiseri.uu, Lema.unn, Machame, Machame.unn, Mamba.unn, Mkuu, Siha, Siha.unn & Vunjo) are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
A brief presentation of various materials produced by German missionaries in northern German East Africa. The bibliography contains much material on Chaga.
www.uni-leipzig.de/~ifa/ma/2_pre.htm
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KAF
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=JMC (Machame)
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=OLD (Mochi?)
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ROF (Rombo)
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VUN (Vunjo)
| Daisu (Bantu E56) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=DHS
| Datooga/Tatoga/Taturu (South Nilotic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TCC
| Degere (South Cushitic) - extinct |
Degere is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Degere.html
| Digo (Bantu E73) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=DIG
| Doe (Bantu G301) |
A 1000-wordlist of Doe is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=DOE
| English (Germanic) |
Not surveyed systematically.
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ENG
| Fipa (Bantu M13) |
A 1000-wordlist of Fipa is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=FIP
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUR (Rungi? dialect?)
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Fipa.
www.language-museum.com/f/fipa.htm
| Ganda/Luganda (Bantu E15) |
Not surveyed systematically. The large majority (or even all?) speakers live in Uganda, but there may be small pockets of Ganda-speakers in the north-west.
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Ganda dictionary (Snoxall 1967), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
A 1000-wordlist of Luganda is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=LAP
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Ganda.
www.language-museum.com/g/ganda.htm
| Gogo (Bantu G11) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GOG
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Gogo.
www.language-museum.com/g/gogo.htm
| Gorowa (South Cuchitic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GOW
| Gujarati (Indoaryan) |
Not surveyed systematically.
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GJR
| Gweno (Bantu E65) |
A 1000-wordlist of Gweno is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GWE
Gweno is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Gweno.html
| Ha/Kiha (Bantu D66) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kiha is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=HAQ
| Hadza (unclassified; formerly classified as Khoesan) |
A Hadza bibliography compiled by Peter Gray, Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~gray/bibliography.html
Sandawe & Hadza bibliography compiled by Jouni Maho & Bonny Sands.
www.african.gu.se/eball/sample-khseaf.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=HTS
Hadza is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Hadza.html
| Hangaza (Bantu D65) |
A 1000-wordlist of Hangaza is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=HAN
| Haya (Bantu E22) |
A 1000-wordlist of Haya is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=HAY
The on-line Language Museum offers two brief text examples of Haya.
www.language-museum.com/h/haya.htm
www.language-museum.com/h/haya-hamba.htm
| Hehe (Bantu G62) |
A 1000-wordlist of Hehe is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=HEH
| Holoholo (Bantu D28) |
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Holoholo dictionary (Coupez 1955), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
Brief ethnological information on the Holohoho people. Art & Life in Africa Online.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Holoholo.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=HOO
| Ikizu (Bantu E402) |
A 1000-wordlist of Ikizu is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=IKZ
| Ikoma/Nata (Bantu E45) |
A 1000-wordlist of Nata is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NTK
| Iraqw/Iraaqw (South Cushitic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=IRK
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Iraqw.
www.language-museum.com/i/iraqw.htm
| Jita (Bantu E25) |
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Jita dictionary (Downing 1999), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
A 1000-wordlist of Jita is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=JIT
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Jita.
www.language-museum.com/j/jita.htm
| Kabwa (Bantu E405) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=CWA
| Kagulu/Kaguru (Bantu G12) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KKI
| Kahe (Bantu E64) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kahe is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=HKA
|
Kalenjin cluster (South Nilotic) Incl. Akie/Mosiro/Ndorobo, Kisankasa, Mediak/Ndorobo, Aramanik (and Okiek?) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MWY (Akiek/Mosiro)
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=AAM (Aramanik)
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KQH (Kisankasa)
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MWX (Mediak)
Akie is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Akie.html
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Kalenjin.
www.language-museum.com/k/kalenjin.htm
| Kami (Bantu G36) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kami is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KCU
| Kara/Regi/Kilegi (Bantu E252) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kilegi is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=REG
| Kerebe/Kikerebe/Kerewe (Bantu E24) |
David Odden's Kikerewe-English dictionary as a downloadable PDF file.
www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~odden/
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Kerewe dictionary (Odden 1994), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file. (Possibly the same as above.)
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
"A preliminary sketch of time, aspect and mood in Kikerebe" by Christina Thornell, 2003. (Published in: Africa & Asia, No 3.)
www.african.gu.se/aa/pdfs/aa03thornell.pdf
A 1000-wordlist of Kerebe is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KED
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Kerebe.
www.language-museum.com/k/kerebe.htm
| Kimbu (Bantu F24) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kimbu is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KIV
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Kimbu.
www.language-museum.com/k/kimbu.htm
| Kinga (Bantu G65) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kinga is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KIX
| Kisi (Bantu G67) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kisi is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KIZ
| Kuria (Bantu E43) |
Two 1000-wordlists of Kuria (file names: Kuria_mago & Kuria_tari) are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KUJ
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Kuria.
www.language-museum.com/k/kuria.htm
| Kutu (Bantu G37) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kutu is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KDC
| Kwadza (South Cushitic) - extinct? |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WKA
Kwadza is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Kwadza.html
| Kwavi (East Nilotic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=CKG
| Kwaya (Bantu E251) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kwaya (file name: Mkwaya) is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KYA
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Kwaya.
www.language-museum.com/k/kwaya.htm
| Lambya (Bantu M201) |
A 1000-wordlist of Lambya is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=LAI
| Luguru/Ruguru (Bantu G35) |
A 1000-wordlist of Luguru is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUF
A (draft) report on 'mission receptivity' among the Ruguru. (Africa Missions Recource Center, July 1993.)
www.africamissions.org/africa/ruguru.htm
| Luo/Dholuo (West Nilotic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=LUO
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Luo.
www.language-museum.com/l/luo.htm
| Maasai (East Nilotic) |
Website of the Maasai Language Project, by Doris L. Payne.
www.uoregon.edu/~dlpayne/maasai/madict.htm
A website about the Maasai: people of the cattle.
www.geocities.com/olmorijo/index.htm
Brief ethnological information on the Maasai people. Art & Life in Africa Online.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Maasai.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MET
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Maasai.
www.language-museum.com/m/maasia.htm
| Mabiha/Mabia (Bantu P25) |
A 1000-wordlist of Mabia is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KDE (listed as a Makonde dialect)
| Makhuwa/Emakhuwa/Makua (Bantu P31) |
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Makhuwa dictionary (Kisseberth 1996), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MAK
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Makhuwa (Metto).
www.language-museum.com/m/makhuwa-metto.htm
| Makonde/Shimakonde (Bantu P23) |
A 1000-wordlist of Makonde is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
Brief ethnological information on the Makonde people. Art & Life in Africa Online.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Makonde.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KDE
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MVW (Machinga? dialect?)
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Makonde.
www.language-museum.com/m/makonde.htm
| Malila (Bantu M24) |
A 1000-wordlist of Malila is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MGQ
| Mambwe-Rungu/Mambwe-Lungu (Bantu M14/M15) |
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Mambwe dictionary (Halemba 1995), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
1000-wordlists of Mambwe and Rungu are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MGR
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Mambwe-Lungu.
www.language-museum.com/m/mambwe-lungu.htm
| Manda (Bantu N11) |
A 1000-wordlist of Manda is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MGS
| Matengo (Bantu N13) |
A 1000-wordlist of Matengo is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MGV
| Matumbi/Kimatuumbi (Bantu P13) |
A 1000-wordlist of Matumbi is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MGW
| Mbugu/Ma'a (Bantu G20A) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MHD
| Mbugwe/Buwe (Bantu F34) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MGZ
| Mbunga (Bantu P15) |
A 1000-wordlist of Mbunga is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MGY
| Meru (Bantu E61) |
Three 1000-wordlists of Meru (file names: Meru, Meruimenti & Merutig) are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RWK
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Meru.
www.language-museum.com/m/meru.htm
| Mpoto (Bantu N14) |
A 1000-wordlist of Mpoto is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MPA
| Mwanga/Namwanga (Bantu M22) |
A 1000-wordlist of Namwanga is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MWN
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Mwanga.
www.language-museum.com/m/mwanga.htm
| Mwera (Bantu P22) |
Two 1000-wordlists of Mwera are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MWE
| Mwera, Mbamba Bay (Bantu N201) |
(None so far.)
| Ndali/Ndari (Bantu M301) |
Two 1000-wordlists of Ndali (file names: Ndali & Ndari) are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NDH
| Ndamba (Bantu G52) |
A 1000-wordlist of Ndamba is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NDJ
| Ndendeule (Bantu N101) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=DNE
| Ndengereko/Ndengeleko (Bantu P11) |
A 1000-wordlist of Ndengeleko is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NDE
| Ndonde (Bantu P24) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NDS
| Ngh'wele/Kwere (Bantu G32) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kwere is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Trilingual Ngh'wele-Swahili-English and Swahili-Ngh'wele-English wordlist" by Karsten Legère. Dept of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University. 2003.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/nghwele.pdf
Brief ethnological information on the Ngh'wele (Kwere) people. Art & Life in Africa Online.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Kwere.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=CWE (Kwere)
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NHE (Ngwele)
The on-line Language Museum offers a brief text example of Kwere.
www.language-museum.com/k/kwere.htm
| Ngindo (Bantu P14) |
A 1000-wordlist of Ngindo is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NNQ
| Ngoni (Bantu N12) |
A 1000-wordlist of Ngoni is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGU
| Ngulu (Bantu G34) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGP
| Nguruimi/Ngoreme (Bantu E401) |
A 1000-wordlist of Ngoreme is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NGQ
| Nilamba/Nyiramba (Bantu F31) |
A 1000-wordlist of Nyiramba is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NIM
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ISN (Isanzu dialect)
| Nindi (Bantu N102) |
(None so far.)
| Nyambo/Runyambo (Bantu E21) |
A 1000-wordlist of Runyambo is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Nyambo dictionary (Rugemalira 1993a), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
Brief ethnological information on the Nyambo (Karagwe) people. Art & Life in Africa Online.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Karagwe.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NYM
| Nyamwezi/Kinyamwezi (Bantu F22) |
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Nyamwezi dictionary (Maganga & Schadeberg 1992), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
"Verbal extensions in Bantu: the case of Swahili and Nyamwezi" by Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi (2002). From: Africa & Asia (Göteborg working papers on Asian and African languages and literatures), no 2, pp 4-26.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/aa02lodhi.pdf
A bibliography on Sukuma and Nyamwezi culture and society, compiled by Joseph L. Mbele.
www.stolaf.edu/people/mbele/bibliography.htm
A 1000-wordlist of Nyamwezi is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NYZ
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KCZ (Konongo dialect)
| Nyanja/Chinyanja/Nyanja-Cewa (Bantu N31) |
Not surveyed systematically. The overwhelming majority of speakers are found in Malawi and Mozambique, but a small number are found in the extreme south-west. (Thanks to Colin Darch in Cape Town for much of the info here.)
A presentation of Chicewa (Chinyanja) people & language, written by Sam Mchombo at Berkeley. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflang/chichewa/chichewa.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NYJ
| Nyaturu/Rimi (Bantu F32) |
Two 1000-wordlists of Nyaturu (file names: Nyaturucha & Nyaturuwil) are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RIM
| Nyekyosa/Nyakyusa (Bantu M31) |
A 1000-wordlist of Nyakyusa is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
"The Nyakyusa Bookshelf". An on-line bibliography of some Nyekyosa materials.
home.online.no/~felberg/nyakyusa/nyabibl.htm
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NYY
| Nyiha/Nyika (Bantu M23) |
A 1000-wordlist of Nyiha is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NIH
| Omani Arabic (Semitic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ACX
| Ongamo/Ngasa (East Nilotic) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NSG
Ongamo is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Ongamo.html
| Pangwa (Bantu G64) |
A 1000-wordlist of Pangwa is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=PBR
| Pimbwe (Bantu M11) |
A 1000-wordlist of Pimbwe is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=PIW
| Pogolo/Pogoro (Bantu G51) |
A 1000-wordlist of Pogoro is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=POY
| Rangi/Langi/Irangi (Bantu F33) |
A 1000-wordlist of Langi is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"If you've got a mother tongue, please use it!" - Minority language development: the case of Rangi" (.PS) by Oliver Stegen. Paper presented at the Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh, May 2003.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~pgc/archive/2003/proc03/Oliver_Stegen03.pdf
"Rangi vowel system: five or seven?" (PDF), by Oliver Stegen. Paper presented at the 30th Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics, August 28-30, 2000, Leiden University.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/rangi008.pdf
"Derivational processes in Rangi" (PDF), by Oliver Stegen, 2002. (Revised version published in: Studies in African linguistics, v 31, pp 129-153.)
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/3sal-der.pdf
"How does their language survive? Survival strategies in the Rangi language of Tanzania" (PDF), by Oliver Stegen, 2003. Draft for a paper presented at the Meeting of the Language in Context Research Group, June 2, 2003, University of Edinburgh.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/03surviv.pdf
"First steps in reconstructing Rangi language
history" (.PS), by Oliver Stegen, 2003. Paper presented at the 33rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, August 25-27, 2003, Leiden University.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/0308pbrg.ps
"The many ways to skin a text, applied to a Rangi
narrative" (PDF), by Oliver Stegen, 2003. Paper paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Tea meeting, May 30, 2003, University of Edinburgh.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/0305abst.pdf
"A pilot study of writing in Rangi society" (PDF), by Oliver Stegen, 2004. Paper for Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, v 13.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/04ewpal.pdf
"Personal letter writing in Africa: formal teaching
versus actual practice" (PDF), by Oliver Stegen, 2004. Paper presented the Meeting of the Language in Context Research Group, March 1, 2004, University of Edinburgh.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~oliver/0403abst.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=LAG
| Ruihi/Rufiji (Bantu P12) |
A 1000-wordlist of Rufiji is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUI
| Rundi/Kirundi (Bantu D62) |
A 1000-wordlist of Rundi is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUD
| Rungwa/Lungwa (Bantu M12) |
Two 1000-wordlists of Rungwa (file names: Rungwa & Lungwa) are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RNW
| Ruri (Bantu E253) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KYA (listed as a Kwaya dialect)
| Rusha/Arusa (Bantu E63) |
(None so far.)
| Rwanda/Kinyarwanda (Bantu D61) |
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Rwanda dictionary (Paradis 19xx), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
A 1000-wordlist of Rwanda (filename: Munyarwand) is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUA
| Safwa (Bantu M25) |
A 1000-wordlist of Safwa is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SBK
| Sagala (Bantu G39) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SBM
| Sandawe (unclassified, or possibly Khoesan) |
Sandawe & Hadza Khoisan bibliography compiled by Jouni Maho & Bonny Sands.
www.african.gu.se/eball/sample-khseaf.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SBR
| Sango/Sangu (Bantu G61) |
A 1000-wordlist of Sangu is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SBP
| Segeju/Sengeju (Bantu E561?) - extinct? |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SEG
Segeju is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Segeju.html
| Shambala/Sambaa/Kishambaa (Bantu G23) |
A 1000-wordlist of Sambaa is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
Brief ethnological information on the Shambala people. Art & Life in Africa Online.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Shambaa.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KSB
| Shashi/Sizaki (Bantu E404) |
A 1000-wordlist of Shashi is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SZK
| Shubi (Bantu D64) |
A 1000-wordlist of Shubi is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SUJ
| Sonjo/Temi (Bantu E46) |
A 1000-wordlist of Sonjo is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SOZ
| Suba (Bantu E403) |
A 1000-wordlist of Suba is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SUH
Suba is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Suba.html
| Sukuma/Kesukuma (Bantu F21) |
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Sukuma dictionary (Mann 1966), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
Two 1000-wordlists of Sukuma (file names: Sukuma & Ntuzu) are included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The Sukuma Museum.
photo.net/sukuma/
Karibu usukumani (the Sukuma homepage).
fizzylogic.com/wasukuma/index.html/
A bibliography on Sukuma and Nyamwezi culture and society, compiled by Joseph L. Mbele.
www.stolaf.edu/people/mbele/bibliography.htm
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SUA
An essay on Sukuma culture by Mark H.C. Bessire.
www.photo.net/sukuma/intro.html
| Sumbwa (Bantu F23) |
A 1000-wordlist of Sumbwa is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SUW
| Swahili/Kiswahili (Bantu G40) |
Not surveyed systematically. We try to put emphasis on the languages that are generally neglected. There are already numerous Swahili sites around.
Many descriptive net-sources are listed at:
www.african.gu.se/webresources/bantu.html#swahili
Moja - lots of Swahili links.
www.moja.com/swahili/
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SWA
The Kamusi Project - an online Swahili dictionary, produced at Yale University.
www.yale.edu/swahili/
The Swahili Cultural Service.
swahiliservice.com
Brief ethnological information on the Swahili people. Art & Life in Africa Online.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Swahili.html
"State ideology and language: the politics of Swahili in Tanzania" by Jan Blommaert (1997). LiCCA [Languages in Contact and Conflict in Africa] papers, no 3. Duisburg: Gerhard-Mercator University.
africana.rug.ac.be/texts/research-publications/publications_on-line/Swahili_in_Tanzania.htm
"Ideology and language in Tanzania: a brief survey" by Jan Blommaert (1997). From: African linguistics at the crossroads: papers from Kwaluseni, pp 501-510. Edited by Robert K. Herbert. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
africana.rug.ac.be/texts/research-publications/publications_on-line/Ideology_and_Language_Tanzania.htm
"The impact of state ideology on language: Ujamaa and Swahili literature in Tanzania" by Jan Blommaert (1997). From: Human contact through language and linguistics (in honour of René Dirven), pp 253-270. Edited by B. Smieja & M. Tasch. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishers.
africana.rug.ac.be/texts/research-publications/publications_on-line/Impact_State_Ideology.htm
"Language and nationalism: comparing Flanders and Tanzania" by Jan Blommaert (1996). From: Nations and Nationalism, vol 2.2, pp 235-256.
africana.rug.ac.be/texts/research-publications/publications_on-line/Flanders_and_Tanzania.htm
| Tongwe (Bantu F11) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TNY
| Tubeta/Taveta (Bantu G21 [=E74a]) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TVS
| Tumbuka (Bantu N21) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TUW
| Vidunda (Bantu G38) |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VID
| Vinza/Kivinza (Bantu D67) |
A 1000-wordlist of Kivinza is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=VIN
| Wandia/Wanda (Bantu M21) |
A 1000-wordlist of Wanda is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
"Linguistics in the Corridor: a review of research on the Bantu languages of South-West Tanzania, North-East Zambia and North Malawi" by Martin T. Walsh & Imani N. Swilla (2002). Expanded version of a paper prepared for the International Colloquium on Kiswahili in 2000, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20-23 March 2000.
www.african.gu.se/downloads/walshswilla2002.pdf
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WBH
| Wanji (Bantu G66) |
A 1000-wordlist of Wanji is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WBI
| Ware (Bantu E40-something?) - extinct? |
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WRE
Ware is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Ware.html
| Yao/Ciyao (Bantu P21) |
CBOLD at Berkeley offers a downloadable Yao dictionary (Ngunga 2001), both as a text file and as a FileMaker-file.
bantu.berkeley.edu/CBOLDFTP/CBOLD_Data/
A 1000-wordlist of Yao is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=YAO
| Zanaki (Bantu E44) |
A 1000-wordlist of Zanaki is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ZAK
| Zaramo (Bantu G33) |
A 1000-wordlist of Zaramo is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
Brief ethnological information on the Zaramo people. Art & Life in Africa Online.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Zaramo.html
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ZAJ
Zaramo is listed in UNESCO's Red Book of Endangered Languages.
www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/Zaramo.html
| Zigula/Zigua (Bantu G31) |
A 1000-wordlist of Zigua is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ZIW
| Zinza/Dzindza/Jinja (Bantu E23) |
A 1000-wordlist of Zinza is included in the Tanzanian Language Survey (Nurse & Philippson 1975).
www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
The information contained in SIL's Ethnologue.
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=JIN
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