Map showing the approximate location of the Matengo Highlands in Tanzania
The Matengo are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mbinga District,[1] Ruvuma Region in southern Tanzania.
In 1957, the population estimate was 57,000,[2] while in 2010, the Matengo population was estimated to number 284,000. Their religious affiliation is to Christianity. Their Affinity Bloc is Sub-Saharan African. Their main language is Matengo,[3][4] which is one of the Bantu languages.[5]
^Kurosaki, p.20
^Kurosaki, p. 21
^"Matengo". Joshua Project: A ministry of the U.S. Center for World Mission. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
^"Languages of Tanzania". Ethnologue:Languages of the World. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
Their main language is Matengo, which is one of the Bantu languages. The Matengopeople are believed to have lived in the Matengo Highlands since the Iron...
District, Ruvuma Region in southern Tanzania. They are home to the Matengopeople. Kindimba is the historical center of the highlands. It is located on...
Tanzanian Southern Highlands. It is located in the Matengo Highlands and is inhabited by the Matengopeople. Litembo is located to the southwest of the town...
Matengo is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Speakers are mostly monolingual, and neighboring languages are not intelligible. Matengo language is relatively...
Southern Highlands. It is the historical centre of the Matengo Highlands and of the Matengopeople. It is located on highland's western side, approximately...
of the Great Rift Valley, covers the western portion of the area. The Matengo Mountains ranges, which reach heights of up to 2000 meters, are to the...
Tanzania, Swahili became predominant in the regions that traditionally spoke Matengo. Drummond, Tammerlin (1993-09-21). "Postscript : Stuck in Language Limbo :...
2007). "Multiple uses of small-scale valley bottom land: case study of the Matengo in southern Tanzania". African Study Monographs, Suppl. 36, 19-38. p. 13...
dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed...
took over its management. The Klipspringer antelope is referred to in the Matengo language as Liparamba. Elephant herds traveling from the Selous Game Reserve...
positions while flying a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. Felistas Matengo-Mkandawire becomes the first black woman pilot in Malawi, flying as first...
Robusta. The nine main growing regions of Arabica are in: Iringa Kigoma Matengo Highlands Mbeya Mbinga Morogoro Ngara North Kilimanjaro Usambara Mountains...
from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014. Chwanya, Matengo (19 June 2019). "Prof. Ayodele Awojobi, The Akoko Giant". Africa Global...
Galela [ru] peoples, are physically distinct from New Guineans, while Papuan traits are more prevalent among the Austronesian-speaking peoples of South Halmahera...
"Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna Deutsch-Ostafrikas, insbesondere des Matengo-Hochlandes. I. Diptera: Trypetidae". Annalen der Naturhistorischen Museums...
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