Sandawe
The Sandawe are an ethnic group of around 40,000 people in central Tanzania ( Kondoa District in the Dodoma Region ). Today they are involved in livestock farming and agriculture , but were originally hunters and gatherers .
The Sandawe are followers of their traditional religion, Christianity or Islam .
According to the results of a human genetic study, the Sandawe are among the populations with the oldest DNA - lineages .
language
Their language is usually assigned to the Khoisan languages , which are mainly characterized by the presence of clicks and noun classes . The Sandawe have a positive attitude towards their language. Most of them use Swahili as a second language (see also bilingualism ), but some are still monolingual (monolingual).
Güldemann / Elderkin recognize a genetic relationship between the Sandawe and the Khoe languages ("Central Khoisan") and the Kwadi .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tanzania, Ethiopia origin for humans (BBC News, April 2, 2003)
- ↑ Tom Güldemann et al. Edward D. Elderkin: On external genealogical relationships of the Khoe family . ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Otto Dempwolff : The Sandawe: linguistic and ethnographic material from German East Africa . Friederichsen, Hamburg 1916.