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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.
Related ethnic groups Kalenjin people , Iraqw people & other Cushitic peoples The Datooga ( Wamang'ati in Swahili ) are a Nilotic ethnic people group from Tanzania , located in Karatu District of Arusha Region and historically in areas of southwest Manyara Region and northern Singida Region .
The Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in the present-day Southern African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.The Ngoni trace their origins to the Nguni and Zulu people of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Afrikaans; العربية; تۆرکجه; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština
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 Gogo also known as Gongwe(Wagogo, in Swahili) are a Bantu ethnic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania. In 1992 the Gogo population was estimated to number 1,300,000. [1] . Their Origin is from Nubia nowday called Sudan.
The Chagga (Wachagga, in Swahili) is a Bantu ethnic group from Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania and Arusha Region of Tanzania. They are the third-largest ethnic group in Tanzania. [2] They historically lived in sovereign Chagga states on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro [3] [4] in both Kilimanjaro Region and Arusha Region.
The Makua people, also known as Makhuwa or Wamakua, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northern Mozambique and the southern border provinces of Tanzania such as the Mtwara Region. [4] [5] They are the largest ethnic group in Mozambique, and primarily concentrated in a large region to the north of the Zambezi River. [6]