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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 Bantu Sukuma are Tanzania's largest ethnic group. mainland - African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, African, mixed Arab and African. Around 100,000 people living in Tanzania are from Europe or Asia.
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
In Tanzania, the language is better known by the Swahili exonym of Chasi. [citation needed] In English, the Alagwa and their language are sometimes referred to as Asi. This English exonym is the result of dropping the Swahili plural prefix of Wa-and the Swahili artifact prefix of Ch-from the Swahili exonyms of Waasi and Chasi, respectively.
See also: Demographics of Tanzania, Culture of Tanzania ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Tanzania" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 ...
The Ndamba are an ethnic and linguistic group based in south-central Tanzania whose population was 500,000 in 2022. They are found in everywhere in Tanzania especially south central, [clarification needed] the Kilolo District of Iringa Region, northeast of Bena, southeast of Hehe, west of Pogolo and southwest of Mbunga.
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 two ethnic groups substantially share language and culture and there is some intermarriage. [1] The Ha women share some cultural traditions with neighboring ethnic groups, such as wearing the Kitindi, or coiled bracelets made of copper wire worn near the elbow. [9] The Ha people are animists who revere their ancestors as well as nature spirits.