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These ethnic groups are of Bantu origin, with large Nilotic-speaking, moderate indigenous, and small non-African minorities. The country lacks a clear dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed by the Wanyakyusa and the Chagga.
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
A map of some of the Luo peoples. The Luo (also spelled Lwo) are several ethnically and linguistically related Nilotic ethnic groups that inhabit an area ranging from Egypt and Sudan to South Sudan and Ethiopia, through Northern Uganda and eastern Congo (DRC), into western Kenya, and the Mara Region of Tanzania.
The population consists of about 125 ethnic groups. [4] The Sukuma, Nyamwezi, Chagga, and Haya peoples have more than 1 million members each. [5]: 4 Over 100 languages are spoken in Tanzania, making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa. [6]
Yao (East Africa) (6 P) Z. Zigula (3 P) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Tanzania" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total.
South African Whites: Indo-European: 157 0 0 0.6 0.6 9.6 0 3.8 51.6 ... Ethnic groups in Africa; African people; Languages of Africa; Y-DNA haplogroups by population.
Most common map used for the Cape Republic [citation needed] or in Cape Independence movements. Cape Republic. Proposed state or autonomous area: Cape Republic [93] Ethnic groups: Cape Coloureds, Afrikaners, Khoisan, Cape Malays, Bantu peoples of South Africa (Primarily Xhosa)
Tanzania, [c] officially the United Republic of Tanzania, [d] is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.