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The Ngulu people, also known as the Geja, Kingulu, Nguru, Nguu, Wayomba, (Swahili collective: Wangulu) are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group hailing from Southern Kilindi District, western Tanga Region of Tanzania and Mvomero District of Morogoro Region. The Ngulu population is around 390,000 people.
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.
Ngulu is a Bantu language spoken in east-central Tanzania. In 1987 the Ngulu-speaking population was estimated to number 132,000 [1] . The Ngulu language is also called Geja, Kingulu, Nguru, Nguu, or Wayomba.
Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance: A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village is an anthropological study of the ngulu cult among the Lungu people of Zambia authored by the anthropologist Roy Willis. It was first published in 1999 by Berg Publishers.
Ngulu may refer to: Ngulu language, a language of Tanzania; Ngulu people; Ngulu Atoll, an island in the Federated States of Micronesia; Ngulu (weapon), an execution ...
In the 1920s, the Rhodesian administration was faced with the challenge of preparing schoolbooks and other materials in the various languages and dialects and requested the recommendation of the South African linguist Clement Doke.
Nguluwan is a mixed language spoken on Ngulu Atoll located between Yap and Palau.The grammar and lexicon are Yapese, but the phonology has been affected by Ulithian.This language is endangered as it only has 50 speakers and that its speakers are shifting to Ulithian.
Somali Bantus are not ancestrally related to the indigenous ethnic Somalis of Cushitic background and have a culture distinct from the ethnic Somalis. The Somali Bantu have remained marginalized ever since the establishment of Somalia. [8] Some Somali Bantu people have been displaced into Kenya, and a small number have returned to Tanzania. [9]