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Rwandans (Rwandan)

An ethnic group from the Great Lakes region of East Africa. Also known as Nyarwanda and Banyarwanda. About 7.84 million people (1978), mainly in Rwanda (4.2 million, accounting for 93.1% of the country's population), Zaire (2.8 million) and Uganda (700,000); another part of the resident in Burundi (100,000) and Tanzania (40,000). It is of the Negro Bantu ethnic group. Bantu of the Negro ethnic group. The Rwandan language is spoken and belongs to the Niger-Congo group of the Niger-Kordofan language family. A part of the population maintains traditional ancestor and nature worship, while a part of the population is Catholic or Protestant. Marriages are polygamous, and the phenomenon of cousin marriages and sister***husbands is permitted. Genealogy, residence and inheritance of property are based on patrilineal lines. The whole society is dominated by hierarchy and is divided into three components according to their origins: ① Tutsis, belonging to the Sudanese type of the Negro race. The Hutus are of the Bantu type of the Negro race. The Twa are of the Pygmy type of the Negro race. However, the Twas are generally counted as another ethnic group.