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单词 sukuma
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Sukuman.adj.

/sʊˈkuːmə/
Forms: Formerly also Wasukuma, wa-Sukuma.
Etymology: < Bantu; compare Nyamwezi (Wa)sukuma, < wa- people, tribe + sukuma north.
(A member of) a people of west central Tanzania; also, their Bantu language. Also attributive or as adj.
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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).
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