Wairaqw

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Mwanamume wa Kiiraqw.
‎Nyumba ya wakulima Wairaqw huko mkoa wa Manyara mwaka 2012.

Wairaqw (pia huitwa Wambulu kutokana na jina la mji wa Mbulu) ni kabila la watu wa Tanzania wanaoishi katika mkoa wa Manyara na mkoa wa Arusha kusini kwa Ngorongoro.

Lugha yao ni Kiiraqw, jamii ya lugha za Kikushi za kusini.

Mwaka 2001 walikuwa 462,000 hivi. Idadi hiyo yaweza kuwa imevuka 1,000,000 kwa sasa.

Asili[hariri | hariri chanzo]

Kihistoria, ni kati ya Wakushi wa kwanza kuhamia eneo la Tanzania ya sasa, ambapo walichanganyikana na Wadatoga na Wabantu, inavyoonekana katika utafiti juu ya DNA. Walitokea Ethiopia katika milenia ya 3 KK na kuelekea kusini kupitia bonde la Ufa.[1]

Nadharia nyingine zinapendekeza kuwa walitokea Mesopotamia ya kale. Hata hivyo hakuna uhusiano dhahiri na nchi ya Irak (au Iraq) iliyopo katika Asia ya Magharibi, isipokuwa jina la kufanana.[2]

Tanbihi[hariri | hariri chanzo]

  1. The Hadza and the Iraqw in northern Tanzania: Dermatographical, Anthropological, Odontometrical and Osteological Approaches.
  2. Sarah Tishkoff (2009). "The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans". Science 324 (5930): 1035–44. Bibcode:2009Sci...324.1035T. PMC 2947357. PMID 19407144. doi:10.1126/science.1172257. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2017-12-07. We incorporated geographic data into a Bayesian clustering analysis, assuming no admixture (TESS software) (25) and distinguished six clusters within continental Africa (Fig. 5A).[...] Another geographically contiguous cluster extends across northern Africa (blue) into Mali (the Dogon), Ethiopia, and northern Kenya. With the exception of the Dogon, these populations speak an Afroasiaticlanguage[...] Nilo-Saharan and Cushitic speakers from the Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania, as well as some of the Bantu speakers from Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda (Hutu/Tutsi), constitute another cluster (purple), reflecting linguistic evidence for gene flow among these populations over the past ~5000 years (28, 29).  Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help) Also see Supplementary Data.
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