Barabaig woman in Hanang District, Manyara Region.
Total population
c. 50,000
Regions with significant populations
Tanzania
Manyara Region
(Hanang District)
Languages
Dialect of Datooga language (native), Rangi, Swahili
Religion
Traditional African religions
Related ethnic groups
Datooga peoples & other Nilotic peoples.
The Barabaig(Wabarabaig, in Swahili) are a nomadic tribe of the Datooga people based in the northern volcanic highlands near Mount Hanang in Manyara Region, Tanzania, speaking the eponymous dialect of the Datooga language.[1] Their population is about 50,000.
The Barabaig(Wabarabaig, in Swahili) are a nomadic tribe of the Datooga people based in the northern volcanic highlands near Mount Hanang in Manyara Region...
identity markers and indication of becoming a brave adult male. The Barabaigpeople of Tanzania have a cultural practice of scarification for women, which...
indigenous people can claim, and to whose development they can consent or not; the rest is privately owned. In 1976, the Barabaigpeople challenged their...
tribes, but the speech of the Gisamjanga (Kisamajeng, Gisamjang) and the Barabaig, for example, are very close, and can be considered a single dialect. The...
latter include the Assa, Gorowa, Kw'adza, Mbugwe, Datooga, Maasai and Barabaig and Irakw, which is the largest ethnic group in the region. The regional...
Sabaot, Lembus, Terik and Tugen [Keiyo] Datog: represented mainly by the Barabaig and small clusters of other Datog speakers A proto-Nilotic unity, separate...
Yoruba, and Tiv people of West Africa, and the Dinka, Nuer, Surma, Shilluk, Toposa, Moru, Bondei, Shambaa, Barabaig, and Maasai people of East Africa....
dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed...
Ethnic groups of the Lake Manyara region are the Maasai, the Iraqw and the Barabaig. Most of the immigrants in the region depend on tourism. Poaching of wildlife...
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