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Sukuma, n. (and a.)|sʊˈkuːmə|
Formerly also Wasukuma, wa-Sukuma.
[a. Bantu; cf. Nyamwezi (Wa)sukuma, f. wa- people, tribe + sukuma north.]
(A member of) a people of west central Tanzania; also, their Bantu language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1860R. F. Burton Lake Regions Cent. Afr. II. xii. 6 The three normal divisions of the people are into Wanyamwezi, Wasukuma or northern, and Watakama or southern. 1891C. Peters New Light on Dark Afr. xii. 486 We may regard Usukuma as a valuable possession, as the Wasukuma, beyond a doubt, make the best bearers. 1935R. C. Thurnwald Black & White in E. Afr. i. 53 The differences between the wa-Sukuma and the wa-Nyamwezi are not very important. 1953H. Cory Sukuma Law & Custom i. 2 Strictly speaking there is no tribal name for the Sukuma people. 1969P. H. Gulliver Tradition & Transition in E. Afr. 105 None of these languages is spoken as a first language by many more than a million speakers, and only a handful of languages (Sukuma/Nyamwezi, Kikuyu, Luo, Kamba (?), Ganda) are spoken by even this number. 1974Afr. Encycl. 491/3 It is possible that the ancestors of the Sukuma were Nyamwezi people who moved northwards from their original home on the central plateau of Tanzania. 1987J. Knappert E. Afr. II. 173 The central dialect of the Fipa cluster, Sukuma,..is believed to be closest to the original Fipa, as the Sukuma people maintain that they are the true indigenous Fipa. |