The Maviha or Mbiha, are an ethnic and linguistic group based along the border between Mtwara Region of Tanzania and Mozambique. https://web.archive.org/web/20060822104026/http://fizzylogic.com/wasukuma/makabila_tz.html. They speak Mahiva language (sometimes considered a dialect of the more common Makonde language), a Niger-Congo language. As a second language, the people will often speak languages such as English in Tanzania, Portuguese and Makua in Mozambique, and Swahili in both countries.