Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...

has many indigenous tribes spread across its ten provinces. This is an incomplete list of these tribes arranged in alphabetical order: *

Ambo Ambo may refer to: Places * Ambo, Kiribati * Ambō (also spelled Anbō), Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan * Ambo Province, Huanuco Region, Peru ** Ambo District ** Ambo, Peru, capital of Ambo District * Ambo, Ethiopia, a capital of West Shewa Zon ...

Aushi Aushi, known by native speakers as ''Ikyaushi'', is a Bantu language primarily spoken in the Lwapula Province of Zambia and the (Haut-)Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although many scholars argue that it is a dialect of th ...

Bemba Bemba may refer to: Languages and ethnic groups * Bemba language, or Chibemba, a Bantu language spoken in Zambia * Bemba people, or AbaBemba, of Zambia * Bemba, a dialect of the Buyu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo People * Jea ...

* Bisa *

Bwile The Bwile people are an ethnic group that live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia around the northern part of Lake Mweru. The Bwile language was spoken by 12,400 in Luapula Province of Zambia according to the 1969 census, an ...

Chewa Chewa may refer to: *the Chewa people *the Chewa language Chewa ( ; also known as Nyanja ) is a Bantu languages, Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. The noun class prefix ''chi-'' is used for lang ...

Chikunda Chikunda, sometimes rendered as Achicunda, was the name given from the 18th century onwards to the slave-warriors of the Afro-Portuguese estates known as Prazos in Zambezia, Mozambique. They were used to defend the prazos and police their inhabit ...

* Cishinga * Chokwe *

Goba Goba ( Oromo: ', Amharic: ጎባ) is a town and separate woreda located in the Bale Zone of the Oromia Region, Ethiopia approximately 446 km southeast of Addis Ababa, this city has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2,743 ...

* Ila * Imilangu * Ngoni * Iwa * Kabende *

Kaonde Kaonde (natively called ''kiiKaonde'') is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Zambia. Kaonde and its dialects are spoken by over 350,000 people. Speakers Kaonde speakers mainly live in the Northwestern and parts of Central regions of Zambia. ...

* Kosa * Kunda * Kwandi *

Kwandu Mashi (Kamaxi), or Kwandu, is a Bantu language of Zambia and Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, ...

* Kwangwa *

Lala ''LaLa'' is a monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Hakusensha on the 24th of each month. The magazine's bonus contents are usually calendars for New Year issues, drama CDs, and so on. In a 2006 survey conducted by Oricon, Japanese girls ...

* Lamba *

Lambya The Lambya are an ethnic and linguistic group based along the border of northwestern Malawi, Ileje and in Momba District of Mbeya Region, Tanzania. A minority also exists in Zambia. In 2001, the Lambya population was estimated to number about 85, ...

Lenje Lenje is a Bantu language of central Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in Sou ...

Leya Leya may refer to: * Grupo Leya, a Portuguese publishing company * Leya language, a language of Zambia and Zimbabwe * Ella Leya, Azerbaijani American composer, singer, and writer * Leya Buchanan (born 1996), Canadian athlete * Leya Evelyn (bor ...

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

* Liyuwa * Lozi * Luyana * Luano *

Luchazi Luchazi (Lucazi, ''Chiluchazi'') is a Bantu language of Angola and Zambia. Luchazi is the principal language of the Ngangela Group.Emil Pearson, "Luchazi Grammar", pp. 5 Ngangela is a term coined by the Vimbundu traders and missionaries in 18th c ...

* Lumbu * Lunda * Lundwe *

Lungu Lungu may refer to: People Politicians *Edgar Lungu (1956–2025), President of Zambia (2015–2021) *Esther Lungu (born 1961), Former First Lady of Zambia * Gheorghe Lungu (politician) (born 1949), Moldovan politician * Tasila Lungu (born 1983), Z ...

* Luunda *

Luvale The Luvale people, also spelled Lovale, Balovale, Lubale, as well as Lwena or Luena in Angola, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northwestern Zambia and southeastern Angola. They are closely related to the Lunda and Ndembu to the northeast, but t ...

* Makoma * Mambwe * Mashasha * Mashi *

Mijikenda Mijikenda may refer to: *Mijikenda peoples *Mijikenda language Mijikenda is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken along the coast of East Africa, mostly in Kenya, where there are 2.6 million speakers (2019 census) but also in Tanzania Tanzania, o ...

* Mbowe *

Mbukushu The Mbukushu people, also known as the Hambukushu, are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group indigenous to Southern Africa. They are part of the larger Lozi ethnic group and have significant populations in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Zambia, number ...

* Mbumi * Mbunda * Mbwela * Mukulu * Mulonga * Mwanga *

Namwanga Mwanga, or Namwanga (Nyamwanga), is a Bantu language spoken by the Mwanga people in the Muchinga Province of Zambia (mainly in the districts of Isoka and Nakonde) and in Mbeya Region, Tanzania. The 2010 Zambian census found 140,000 speakers. The ...

Ndembu Zambia has many indigenous tribes spread across its ten provinces. This is an incomplete list of these tribes arranged in alphabetical order: * Ambo * Aushi * Bemba * Bisa * Bwile * Chewa * Chikunda * Cishinga * Chokwe * Goba * Ila * ...

* Ng'umbo *

Nkoya The Nkoya (also Shinkoya) people are a Bantu people native to Zambia, living mostly in the Western and Southern provinces and the Mankoya area. As of 2006, they were estimated to number 146,000 people. Besides Nkoya proper, Nkoya dialects incl ...

* Nsenga * Nyengo * Nyika * Sala *

Seba Seba or SEBA may refer to: Places * Seba, Indonesia, on the Savu Islands *Seven Brothers Islands, also known as the Seba Islands, part of the Republic of Djibouti Institutions * Secondary Education Board of Assam, India * Systematic and Evolutiona ...

* Senga * Shanjo * Shila * Simaa * Soli * Subiya * Swaka *

Swahili Swahili may refer to: * Swahili language, a Bantu language officially used in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes. * Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa. * Swahili culture, the culture of the Swahili p ...

* Tabwa *

Tambo Tambo may refer to: People * Adelaide Tambo (1929–2007), South African anti-apartheid activist * Dali Tambo (born 1959), South African anti-apartheid activist, TV presenter and also son of Oliver Tambo and Adelaide Tambo * Oliver Tambo (1917� ...

* Toka *

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* Totela *

Tumbuka Tumbuka may refer to: *Tumbuka people, a Bantu people of eastern Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania **Tumbuka language Chitumbuka (also known as Senga) is a Bantu languages, Bantu language which is spoken primarily in Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, and Zim ...

Twa The Twa, often referred to as Batwa or Mutwa (singular), are indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of the Great Lakes Region in Central Africa, recognized as some of the earliest inhabitants of the area. Historically and academically, the term � ...

Unga The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; , AGNU or AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ. Currently in its 79th session, its powers, ...

* Wandya * Yombe

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Tribes The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

Lists of tribes