Miye na Weye Nachu Solaane

[malibantu]

My maliBantu boys Bantu Island

[BlackVelvet]

What language is that?

[manaxe88]

i think waa af mushunguli iyo somali si khaldan loogu dhawaaqayo

[malibantu]

Mushungli Chizigua language + Maay Maay + English

[BlackVelvet]

I didn't know Mushunguli had their own language. Does it share similarities with any other African language?

[manaxe88]

mushunguli speak totally different language..not all somali bantus speak af mushunguli but only mushunguli tribe.

[StormShadow]

I didn't know Mushunguli had their own language. Does it share similarities with any other African language?

Mushunguli is also called zigula back in Tanzania its a bantu language spoken by the mushunguli tribe of southern Tanzania a dialect of the Chizigua.

[Adali]

I thought Mushunguli were Somali, so they're actually from Tanzania ?

[StormShadow]

I thought Mushunguli were Somali, so they're actually from Tanzania ?

The zanzibar and the dhaga cas caught slaves from different tribes in Tanzania and Mozambique so not all the Bantus in Somalia are from the same tribe.
In the mid 200's thousands of Mushunguli and other tribes went back to Tanazania and were given land for farming by their fellow tribesmen and the UN helped them settle.

"We are happy to be back, but we have to get on with things," he said. "We need to organise our lives, get ourselves established and start farming. The land here is fertile, but we have not really had time to farm."

Their forefathers were from the Zigua and Zaramo ethnic communities, who live in the area and, in the early 19th Century, were taken by slavers to work on plantations and industries in Somalia. In the 1830's, following droughts and in an effort to avoid famine others trailed after them, attracted by the allure of work in a distant land.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/47245/so ... ali-bantus

[BlackVelvet]

I didn't know Mushunguli had their own language. Does it share similarities with any other African language?

Mushunguli is also called zigula back in Tanzania its a bantu language spoken by the mushunguli tribe of southern Tanzania a dialect of the Chizigua.