ethnolinguistic

Which got me thinking out of the ethnolinguistic mode (I just like making Dragon NaturallySpeaking type "ethnolinguistic") and into a mode of more manufactured communities.

September 10th, 2003 2003

The reason is that these distinct Bantu ethnolinguistic groups would have shared commonalities in their agricultural practices and in their staple crops that each had inherited from their Mashariki and Kaskazi Bantu ancestors.

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

The Swahili were not the only ethnolinguistic group with an identity.

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

These interactions resulted in the formation of several discernable yet malleable ethnolinguistic culture clusters that involved both Ruvu language descendants and people of distinct language ancestries.

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

It is the undeniable level of steadfastness with which Ruvu descendants held to their ethnolinguistic identities in the face of both an ongoing Swahili presence and the absorbing of significant populations of Njombe people into their societies.

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

While those East-Ruvu people were surely multilingual, speaking Swahili and probably additional neighboring languages, as they have been until recent times, they remained affiliated with their particular ethnolinguistic identities.

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

However, the historian María de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi suggests that "the linguistic categorization is somewhat misleading" partly because "the majority of indigenous peoples in Oaxaca identify more closely with their village or their community than with their ethnolinguistic group."

The indigenous people of Oaxaca 2008

Examining the second map sequence permits one to envisage the early regional groupings of Ruvu communities as they evolved into the recognizable ethnolinguistic communities of recent centuries.

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

Because individual towns and tribal groups lived in isolation from each other for long periods of time, the subsequent seclusion allowed sixteen ethnolinguistic groups to maintain their individual languages, customs and ancestral traditions intact well into the colonial era and - to some extent - to the present day.

The indigenous people of Oaxaca 2008

By the close of the first millennium CE, these ethnolinguistic communities covered a region that extended south of the Rufiji River, north to the southern edges of the Ngulu Mountains, and west to the edges of the Maasai steppe.

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