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It is not exactly what we want to discuss here, but there is a traditional belief among the
Zelidva of Divili that they adopted Lamang when Kumba Zadva became their founding
ancestor, but kept Dghweɗe for rituals. We discuss the role of Kumba Zadva in the chapter
'Outsiders and founders' in Part Three. Also, the Tur tradition as a key pre-colonial tradition
of origin, embracing all groups of the Gwoza hills including the Wandala, suggests that
perhaps Lamang might have also once been more prominent in the hills. This view is also
supported by the similarity between Lamang and Hde. We therefore like to stick with Wolff's
'Lamang-Wandala convenience group' for geographical and oral historical reasons.
Figure 3a shows that Lamang was spoken in 1994 in most villages along the western foothills
of the Gwoza hills as far as Warabe. In northern Warabe, Wandala begins to be spoken as the
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