单词 | sukuma |
释义 | Sukuman.adj. (A member of) a people of west central Tanzania; also, their Bantu language. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [noun] > Bantu peoples Swahili1814 Chagga1823 Mashona1835 Wagogo1840 Wachagga1849 Tumbuka1850 Sukuma1860 Wanyamwezi1860 Babemba1867 Kavirondo1870 Nyamwezi1885 Bemba1887 Chewa1887 Shangaan1887 Rwanda1889 Awemba1890 Yao1894 Ngoni1899 Nyanja1899 Kisii1905 Ganda1906 Meru1908 Lamba1909 Hutu1922 Lozi1935 Ila1956 Gogo1957 the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [adjective] > Bantu peoples Wagogo1840 Swahilian1846 Tumbuka1850 Wanyamwezi1860 Rwanda1864 Nyasa1887 Ngoni1891 Mashona1893 Ganda1894 Ila1907 Meru1908 Chewa1909 Yao1910 Nyanja1923 Lozi1937 Nyamwezi1939 Sukuma1953 Lamba1956 Gogo1969 the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages Kaffir1820 Swahilese1833 Sesotho1846 Chagga1849 Kikuyu1849 Mitshi1854 Manganja1859 Bantu1866 Kavirondo1870 Luganda1876 Sotho1876 Fan1883 Gogo1883 Lunda1883 Nyamwezi1883 Kioko1884 Barotse1888 Ganda1891 Tumbuka1891 Chichewa1897 Bemba1902 Nyanja1902 Rwanda1902 Lingala1903 Sepedi1905 Ila1907 Lamba1907 Chewa1908 Venda1908 Ngoni1911 Munchi1913 Meru1921 Yao1924 Lozi1937 Nguni1939 Ndembu1945 Mwera1947 Sango1948 Ovambo1953 Sukuma1969 Tiv1976 1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. II. xii. 6 The three normal divisions of the people are into Wanyamwezi, Wasukuma or northern, and Watakama or southern. 1891 C. 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. 1935 R. C. Thurnwald Black & White in E. Afr. i. 53 The differences between the wa-Sukuma and the wa-Nyamwezi are not very important. 1953 H. Cory Sukuma Law & Custom i. 2 Strictly speaking there is no tribal name for the Sukuma people. 1969 P. 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. 1974 Afr. 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. 1987 J. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1860 |
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