Mbugwe or Mbuwe is a Bantu language of spoken by the Mbugwe people of Lake Manyara

Lake Manyara

Lake Manyara is a shallow lake in the Natron-Manyara-Balangida branch of the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania. Said by Ernest Hemingway to be the "loveliest [lake] .....

 in the Manyara Region

Manyara Region

Manyara is one of the 26 Regions of Tanzania. Babati serves as the Region's capital. In its northern part is Lake Manyara. It is bordered to the north by the Arusha Region, to the northeast by the Kilimanjaro Region, to the east by the Tanga Region, to the south by the Dodoma Region, to the...

 of Tanzania

Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

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Mbugwe is isolated from other Bantu languages, being bordered by the locally dominant Cushitic language Iraqw

Iraqw language

Not to be confused with Iroquois language.Iraqw is a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania in the Arusha and Manyara Regions. It is expanding in numbers, as the Iraqw people absorb neighboring ethnic groups. The language has a large number of Datooga loanwords, especially in poetic language...

 to the west, the Gorowa language

Gorowa language

Gorowa is a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania in the Dodoma and Manyara Regions.- References :*...

 (or dialect of Iraqw) to the south, the Nilotic Maasai language

Maasai language

The Maasai language is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 800,000...

 to the east, and the lake to the north. It shares about 70% vocabulary with its Bantu cousin Rangi

Rangi language

Rangi or Langi is a Bantu language of spoken by the Rangi people of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. Dialects are Kondoa, Haubi, Kolo, Mondo....

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