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  • proper noun a Bantu language of Tanzania

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Examples

  • Among the speech communities outside of Northeast-Coastal who are familiar with these pots are the Kisi, Hehe, and Sonjo of the Njombe subgroup and Matumbi, Mwera, Yao, and Ruihi of Rufiji-Ruvuma, the two most southerly Kaskazi language branches.

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • In Tanzania the Sonjo use water from streams and springs to irrigate heavy bottomland in the dry season, and supplement rainy-season production on sandy upland fields. 8 Flumes

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • So bitterly did she weep that Sonjo felt as if his heart were being torn out while he listened.

    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Sonjo; but, instead of trying to escape, she swam straight towards him, looking at him the while in a strange fixed way.

    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • When Sonjo awoke in the morning, this dream remained so vivid in his mind that he was greatly troubled.

    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Akanuma, he perceived a pair of oshidori [1] (mandarin-ducks), swimming together in a river that he was about to cross. to kill oshidori is not good; but Sonjo happened to be very hungry, and he shot at the pair.

    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • There was a falconer and hunter, named Sonjo, who lived in the district called Tamura-no-Go, of the province of Mutsu.

    Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • GRAY, Robert F. (1963) The Sonjo of Tanganyika: An Anthropological Study of an Irrigation Based Society.

    14. Saving seeds for planting 1991

  • He had chosen to show a film, Land of the Sonjo, about Richard’s 1964 expedition to Lake Natron when Kamoya found an important hominid fossil, so that he did not have to talk continuously.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • He had chosen to show a film, Land of the Sonjo, about Richard’s 1964 expedition to Lake Natron when Kamoya found an important hominid fossil, so that he did not have to talk continuously.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

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