The Burunge or Burungi (Waburungi, in Swahili) are a Cushitic ethnic group and among Iraqhw Communities based in the Chemba District of Dodoma Region in central Tanzania. They speak the Burunge language as a mother tongue, which belongs to the South Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. In 2007, the Burunge population was estimated at 30,000 individuals.[1]
The Burunge or Burungi (Waburungi, in Swahili) are a Cushitic ethnic group and among Iraqhw Communities based in the Chemba District of Dodoma Region...
Region, by the Burungepeople, a small community of about 28,000 native speakers that live in the Northeastern region of Tanzania. The Burunge belong to a...
Burunge may refer to: the Burungepeople the Burunge language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Burunge. If an internal...
neighbouring Burungepeople, another South Cushitic group. The Alagwa language shares many surface level similarities with the Burunge language, despite...
The Iraqw People (/ɪˈrɑːkuː/) are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the northern Tanzanian regions. They are believed to have originated from the southwestern...
assimilating surrounding Cushitic peoples, primarily the Alagwa and Burunge. The Rangi also assimilated the neighboring Nyaturu people, another Bantu ethnic group...
Gorowa, and Burunge.: page 17 Based on linguistic evidence, there may also have been two movements into Tanzania of Eastern Cushitic people at about 4...
that Cushitic languages were spoken by the people of the C-Group culture in northern Nubia, or the people of the Kerma culture in southern Nubia. Most...
dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed...
past few million years. About 250,000 years ago Lake Manyara and Lake Burunge were part of a larger lake called Proto-Manyara, a basin of internal drainage...
Professor of African studies at the University of Hamburg. Eine Grammatik des Burunge (= Afrikanistische Forschungen. Band 13). Research-and-Progress-Verlag...
generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native people, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language...
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