The Kw'adza, also known as the Qwadza, were an ethnic group and Iraqw Communities based in the Mbulu District of

Manyara Region Manyara Region (''Mkoa wa Manyara'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The regional capital is the town of Babati. According to the 2012 national census, the region had a population of 1,425,131, which was lower than th ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...

. They spoke the Kw'adza language as a mother tongue, which belongs to the

South Cushitic The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages. The most numerous is Iraqw, with half a million speakers. These languages are believed to have been originally spoken by Southern Cushitic agro-pastoralist ...

branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The Kw'adza were related to but distinct from the Iraqw. In 1999, '' Ethnologue'' reported that the Kw'adza language had become extinct, though no information was given regarding whether living descendants of the Kw'adza people identify themselves as such.Ethnologue - Kw'adza
/ref>

References

Ethnic groups in Tanzania Cushitic-speaking peoples {{Tanzania-ethno-group-stub