Definition of Chaga

1. Noun. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania.

Exact synonyms: Chagga, Kichaga
Generic synonyms: Bantoid Language, Bantu

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaga

Chadians
Chadic
Chadic language
Chaenactis
Chaenomeles
Chaenomeles japonica
Chaenomeles speciosa
Chaenopsis
Chaenopsis ocellata
Chaeronea
Chaetodipterus
Chaetodipterus faber
Chaetodontidae
Chaetognatha
Chaga (current term)
Chagall
Chagallian
Chagas' disease
Chagas-Cruz disease
Chagas disease
Chagatai
Chagga
Chagres virus
Chahta
Chaidari
Chaidario
Chaidarion
Chaim
Chaim Azriel Weizmann

Literary usage of Chaga

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa by Mary French Sheldon (1892)
"VULCANS OF Chaga. ... fundis, or craftsmen in metal work, have attained a great degree of skill and perfection throughout Chaga land. ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"... when the dew still lay thickly on the fern-fronds in the Chaga lanes, and the sun cast long blue shadows over the wet turf of the. village greens, ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"I have spoken of the platform of Chaga, by that I mean the broad irregular terrace which skirts the southern aspectof the mountain, rises from 4000 to 0000 ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"From them I learned that Mandara, who was the chief of Chaga when New visited it, has since been conquered by another Chaga chief, and has now no power ..."

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