Ware (ethnic group)

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The Ware were a Bantu ethnic/ linguistic group in Tanzania. They are believed to have become extinct. Around 1900, they were still living on an island in the Eastern part of Lake Victoria. 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.

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• Maho, Jouni & Bonny Sands. 2002. The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography. (Orientalia et africana gothoburgensia, no 17.) Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Pp ix, 428. ISBN 91-7346-454-6
• 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.