Nambya people

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The Nambya people are a Bantu ethnic group primarily found in northwestern Zimbabwe and northeastern Botswana, closely related culturally and linguistically to neighboring groups such as the Kalanga.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nambya people canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu people
ethnic group
continent Africa
country Botswana
Zimbabwe
culturalPractice initiation rites
traditional rainmaking ceremonies
culturalRegion Southern Africa
culturalSimilarity Kalanga people
ethnicGroupIn Botswana
Zimbabwe
ethnicity Bantu
linked to: Bantu peoples
ethnoLinguisticGroup Bantu
linked to: Bantu peoples
hasDialectContinuumWith Kalanga language
historicalAssociation Rozvi Empire
historicalLanguageInfluence Kalanga language
Shona languages
language Nambya language
languageFamily Bantu languages
linguisticSimilarity Kalanga language
locatedIn northeastern Botswana
northwestern Zimbabwe
minorityStatus ethnic minority in Botswana
ethnic minority in Zimbabwe
neighboringEthnicGroup Kalanga people
Ndebele people
Tonga people
primaryLivelihood agriculture
cattle herding
region Hwange area
linked to: Hwange District

Kazungula area
linked to: Kazungula

Zambezi basin
linked to: Zambezi Basin
relatedEthnicGroup Kalanga people
religion African traditional religion
Christianity
selfDesignation Nambya
traditionalArchitecture mud and thatch homesteads
traditionalDress animal-skin garments
beadwork
traditionalMusic call-and-response singing
drumming
traditionalTerritory Hwange District
Matabeleland North Province
linked to: Matabeleland North

northwestern Zimbabwe
usesScript Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kalanga people neighboringGroup Nambya people
Midlands Province hasEthnicGroup Nambya people
subject linked to: Midlands
Nambya language usedBy Nambya people
Nambya language ethnicGroup Nambya people