Kimbu is a Bantu, Niger-Congo language spoken across a wide swathe of west-central Tanzania by loosely-associated communities totaling no more than 62,672 (Muzale and Rugemalira 2008). Sharply decreasing numbers, sparsely-distributed population, and largely negative attitudes of speakers toward speaking Kimbu (Simons and Fenig 2018, Gabriel 2018) mean that this language is highly endangered. Additionally, there are no documentary materials available for this language whatsoever. This small project provides an initial documentation of this language by focusing on a unique aspect of Kimbu culture: nomadism. Audiovisual recordings cover political economy, patterns of movement, and family structure and inheritance - all pertaining to how the Kimbu people move and have moved across the land. These materials, along with morphosyntactic and lexical elicitation, will be the starting point for grammatical analysis of the language. Primary investigator: Augustino Amos Kagwema