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n. - Tall agricultural people of the slopes of Kilimanjaro; their Bantu language.

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  • Is anyone wagging their finger at Chagga-speakers for having a more prestigious language than Ongamo?
  • In Tanzania, almost all Ongamo speakers have abandoned their native language in favor of Chagga, a more prestigious Bantu language.
  • It is widely distributed all over Tanzania (Watt and Brandwijk 1969) and it is known by different vernacular names; e.g. Mvumbasi (Swahili), Mkamba (Chagga) and...
  • The area surrounding the mountain is quite heavily populated principally by the Chagga people and the northern and western slopes of the Forest Reserve surrounding the...
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