Livonia in 1534. Latvia's historic cultural regions and zones. Lithuania's ethnoregonal sub-regions. This is an attempt to find out the ethnic origins of the Baltic peoples, whether they are the ones of Finnic (Estonians, etc.) or Balt (Latvians, etc.) origins. The time frame is from the first human lived in the region to the rule of Medieval Teutonic Knights.
[oki] Manyara and Tanga regions; some south of Arusha among Maasai [mas] language speakers. Status: 8a (Moribund). Alternate Names: Akiek Classification: Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Southern, Kalenjin, Okiek Comments: Speakers in Tanzania and Kenya are not in touch with each other.
The name Tanzania was created as a clipped compound of the names of the two states that unified to create the country: Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The name Tanganyika is derived from the Swahili words tanga (sail) and nyika (uninhabited plain, wilderness), creating the phrase sail in the wilderness.