The ‘Mbugu’ anomaly
- 1 February 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- Vol. 37 (1) , 188-207
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00094957
Abstract
The people known to both Africans and Europeans as Mbugu (Wambugu, Vambugu) live in the western Usambara mountains in Tanzania among the Sambaa. Their language, long known as posing a linguistic problem, is usually-described as having a non-Bantu lexicon and a Bantu grammatical structure. However, the actual linguistic situation is somewhat more complicated than this, as our researches (A.N.T. 1965, M.A.B. 1959) now show.Keywords
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