The Bena are Bantu ethnolinguistic group based in the
Njombe Region
Njombe Region (''Mkoa wa Njombe'' in Swahili language, Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative Regions of Tanzania, regions which covers a land area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of El ...
of south-central
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to t ...
who speak the Bantu
Bena language
Bena is a Bantu language spoken by the Bena people of the Iringa region of Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the n ...
. In 2001, the Bena population was estimated to number 670,000.
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Groups include the Bena of Njombe highlands and their offshoot, the Bena of Ulanga.
See also
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Nena people
The Nena people are an African tribe first encountered in the last quarter of the 19th century in the north-east Livingstone Mountains in what is now Tanzania by two different European travellers. The Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson stumbled acr ...
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List of ethnic groups in Tanzania
Tanzania’s population comprises more than 120 ethnic groups, with no single group forming a majority, contributing to a diverse cultural and linguistic landscape without including ethnic groups that reside in Tanzania as refugees from conflicts ...
References
Ethnic groups in Tanzania
Indigenous peoples of East Africa
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