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Definition of Nyamwezi
1. Noun. A Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania.
Definition of Nyamwezi
1. Proper noun. a people of Tanzania ¹
2. Proper noun. a Bantu language spoken by this people ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nyamwezi
Literary usage of Nyamwezi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Ivory Trader in North Kenia: The Record of an Expedition Through Kikuyu by Alfred Arkell- Hardwick (1903)
"Engaging porters — Characteristics of Swahili, Wa'Nyamwezi, and Wa'Kamba porters —
Selecting trade goods — Provisions—Arms and ammunition—The ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Language: Comprising Those by J. Torrend (1891)
"NB What renders particularly interesting this tendency in Nyamwezi, Yao, and, as
we shall see further on, in Sagara and Gogo, to weaken consonants after ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"Thus Ki- Nyamwezi is the language spoken by the Wa-Nyamwezi, which people dwell
in the country called U-Nyamwezi, one of them being a M'Nyamwezi or ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1861)
"habitants of U-nyamwezi is M'-nyamwezi in the singular, and \Va-nyamwezi in the
... Several years ago I arrived at the root Nyamwezi by a different process. ..."
5. The Isizulu: A Revised Edition of a Grammar of the Zulu Language; with an by Lewis Grout (1893)
"Here, too, as in Zulu, the adjective follows the word it qualifies. Its prepositions
and conjunctions are few. 4. The Nyamwezi Language Is spoken at ..."
6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1862)
"With reference to the derivation of the designation " Mountains of the Moon "
from the name of the country, U-Nyamwezi, in the •vicinity of those lakes, ..."
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