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The Bantu Swahili language written in the Arabic script on the clothes of a Tanzanian woman (early 1900s). According to Ethnologue, there are a total of 126 languages spoken in Tanzania. Two are institutional, 18 are developing, 58 are vigorous, 40 are endangered, and 8 are dying. There are also three languages that recently became extinct. [2]
Kagulu language; Kami language (Tanzania) Kara language (Tanzania) Kerewe language; Kimbu language; Kinga language; Kirundi; Kisi language (Tanzania) Konongo–Ruwila language; Kuria language; Kutu language; Kwavi dialect; Kwaya language; Kwere language; Kwʼadza language
There are more than 100 distinct ethnic groups and tribes in Tanzania, not including ethnic groups that reside in Tanzania as refugees from conflicts in nearby countries. These ethnic groups are of Bantu origin, with large Nilotic-speaking , moderate indigenous, and small non-African minorities.
Tanzania's literary culture is primarily oral. Major oral literary forms include folktales, poems, riddles, proverbs, and songs. [8]: page 69 The greatest part of Tanzania's recorded oral literature is in Swahili, even though each of the country's languages has its own oral tradition. The country's oral literature has been declining because of ...
The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages.The most numerous is Iraqw, with one million speakers.Scholars believe that these languages were spoken by Southern Cushitic agro-pastoralists from Ethiopia, who began migrating southward into the Great Rift Valley in the third millennium BC.
Central Kilimanjaro, or Central Chaga, is a Bantu language of Tanzania spoken by the Chaga people. There are several dialects: [1] Moshi (Old Moshi, Mochi, Kimochi) Uru; Mbokomu; Wuunjo (Wunjo, Vunjo, Kivunjo), including Kiruwa, Kilema, Mamba, Moramu (Marangu), Mwika
[1] [2] In 2001, the Ha population was estimated to number between 1 and 1.5 million, making them one of the largest ethnic groups in ethnically diverse Tanzania. [1] [3] [4] Their language is a Bantu language, [5] and is called the Ha language, also called Kiha, Ikiha or Giha.
Ngurimi (Ngoreme) is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Ngoreme is spoken in the Serengeti District of the Mara Region of north-west Tanzania by some 55,000 people. [3] There are two main dialects of Ngoreme - a northern dialect and a southern dialect - which maintain mutual intelligibility.