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Sandawe, n. (and a.)|sænˈdɑːweɪ|
Also Sandawi.
[Native name.]
The name of a tribe in central Tanzania having racial, cultural, and linguistic affinities with the Hottentots; a member of this tribe; their language; also attrib. or as adj.
1924Jrnl. Afr. Soc. XXIV. 26 Farther to the south-east, another ‘click’ language is met with, the Sandawi. 1925Ibid. XXIV. 219 A section of Wanyaturu some 5,000 strong, who for generations have lived with them, accepting the rule of the Sandawi headmen. Ibid. 226 The Sandawi is a bowman. Ibid. 334 For a description of the Sandawi language I must refer to some notes by Father Lemble... Its most interesting feature is its clicks. 1947Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. LXXVII. 61/1 The Sandawe are a tribe, some 21,000 strong, inhabiting part of the Kondoa Irangi District..in the Central Province of Tanganyika. 1958J. P. Moffett Handbk. Tanganyika v. 158 The members of the Sandawi tribe occupy the south-western part of the Kondoa District. 1963in Oliver & Mathew Hist E. Afr. iii. 62 It should be added that the pastoralism of the Hottentots seems to be older and more deep-seated than that of the Sandawe. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 1029/2 During the Stone Age, bands of hunter-gatherers of the Bushmen type inhabited parts of the country [sc. Tanzania]. The Sandawe are vestiges of this early group. |