Burunge (also Bulunge, Burunga Iso, Burungee, Burungi, Kiburunge, Mbulungi, Mbulungwe) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Tanzania in the Dodoma Region, by the Burunge people, a small community of about 28,000 native speakers that live in the Northeastern region of Tanzania.[1] The Burunge belong to a cluster of Tanzanian groups known as Southern Cushites, which also categorizes Burunge as part of the South Cushitic language family.[2] The Burunge live in close proximity to other languages such as the Rangi, Gogo and Sandawe, and ultimately, their language and culture is endangered by dwindling number of speakers and absorption by larger tribes.
^ abcBurunge at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Lamberti, M. (1991). Cushitic and its classifications. Anthropos, (H. 4./6), 552–561.
Burunge (also Bulunge, Burunga Iso, Burungee, Burungi, Kiburunge, Mbulungi, Mbulungwe) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Tanzania in the Dodoma Region...
Burunge may refer to: the Burunge people the Burungelanguage This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Burunge. If an internal...
speak the Burungelanguage as a mother tongue, which belongs to the South Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. In 2007, the Burunge population...
neighbouring Burunge people, another South Cushitic group. The Alagwa language shares many surface level similarities with the Burungelanguage, despite being...
has become similar to Burunge through intense contact, and so had previously been classified as a Southern West Rift language. Aasax and Kw'adza are...
(possibly a language isolate) Sandawe (possibly a language isolate) Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Alagwa Burunge Gorowa Iraqw Semitic Arabic Indo-European Indo-Iranian...
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic...
the latter aver that they were the work of a northern people of peculiar language called the Sirikwa, who were later decimated by pestilence. According to...
began assimilating surrounding Cushitic peoples, primarily the Alagwa and Burunge. The Rangi also assimilated the neighboring Nyaturu people, another Bantu...
and Somalia into Tanzania. They are ancestral to the Iraqw, Gorowa, and Burunge.: page 17 Based on linguistic evidence, there may also have been two movements...
conflicts, a fact attributed to the unifying influence of the Swahili language. The ethnic groups mentioned here are mostly differentiated based on ethnolinguistic...
Professor of African studies at the University of Hamburg. Eine Grammatik des Burunge (= Afrikanistische Forschungen. Band 13). Research-and-Progress-Verlag...
turns west and then south, before terminating at its river mouth on Lake Burunge. Much of the Tarangire River headwaters in the Irangi Hills headwaters...
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