The Mbugwe are a Bantu ethnic group based in the Babati District of Manyara Region and in southwestern Arusha Region of Tanzania. The Mbugwe are said to have originated from the Rangi and they speak a language that is related to Rangi.[1] In 1999, the Mbugwe population was estimated to number 24,000.[2] They speak the Mbugwe language, the following are places where Mbugwe tribe at the Manyara region are distributed in Mwada, Magugu, Babati etc.
- ^ Mous, Maarten. The Making of a Mixed Language: The Case of Ma'a/Mbugu. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003, ISBN 978-90-272-5248-7, p. 32.
- ^ Ethnologue. Languages of Tanzania, accessed September 8, 2011.