The Ware were a Bantu ethnic/ linguistic group in

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. They are believed to have become extinct. Around 1900, they were still living on an island in the Eastern part of

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off the coast of

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. According to Maho & Sands (2002), their language has died out as mentioned by Sommer (1992: 397). It is not known whether there are still people calling themselves "Ware" today in that area, nor which language they would be speaking.

References

*Maho, Jouni & Bonny Sands. 2002. ''The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography''. (Orientalia et africana gothoburgensia, no 17.) Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Pp ix, 428. *Sommer, Gabriele. 1992. "A survey on language death in Africa". In: ''Language death: factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa'' (Contributions to the sociology of language, vol 64), pp 301–417. Edited by Matthias Brenzinger. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Ethnic groups in Tanzania Extinct ethnic groups {{Tanzania-ethno-group-stub