There is no evidence for a wider linguistic affiliation with any of the other Pygmy peoples.

The earliest inhabitants of the area were Pygmy peoples.

"Pygmy" may instead refer to the pygmy peoples who live in the same area.

He knew the Pygmy peoples of the Congo Regions very well.

Genetically, different Pygmy peoples have distinct mechanisms for their short stature, demonstrating diverse origins.

(While there are pygmy peoples in colder climates as well, this may have occurred by migration.)

Most of southern Africa was occupied by pygmy peoples and Khoisan who engaged in hunting and gathering.

Pygmy peoples :

There are over a dozen attested Pygmy peoples numbering at least 350,000 in the Congo Basin.

Traditionally, the Twa have been a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers of the mountain forests living in association with agricultural villages, much as other Pygmy peoples do.

The pygmy peoples are hunter-gatherer groups living in equatorial rainforests characterized by their short height (below one and a half meters, or 59 inches, on average).

Some 5,000 Gyele and Baka Pygmy peoples roam the southeastern and coastal rainforests or live in small, roadside settlements.

Ibogaine-containing preparations are used in medicinal and ritual purposes within African spiritual traditions of the Bwiti, who claim to have learned it from the Pygmy peoples.

There are also various Pygmy peoples: the Bongo, Kota, and Baka; the latter speak the only non-Bantu language in Gabon.

All attested Pygmy peoples speak languages from these three language families, and only three peoples, the Aka, Baka, and Asua, have their own language.

However, there are several Nilotic groups in East Africa, and a few remaining indigenous Khoisan ("San" or "Bushmen") and Pygmy peoples in southern and central Africa, respectively.

No Pygmy people is known to have ever been self-sufficient in isolation in the forest without an agricultural patron to supply some of their needs; all Pygmy peoples are "symbiotic" in this sense.

The Pygmy peoples have high levels of genetic diversity, yet are extremely divergent from all other human populations, suggesting they have an ancient indigenous lineage, the most ancient divergence after the Southern African Bushmen.

He has co-operated on several ethnologic recordings of pygmy music, notably in this compilation that includes the recordings of Colin Turnbull and Jean-Pierre Hallet of other pygmy peoples in the Congo.

The term BaMbuti (Mbuti) is therefore confusing, as it has been used to refer to all the pygmy peoples in the Ituri region in general, as well as to a single subgroup in the center of the Ituri forest.

Jean-Pierre Hallet, who grew up in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and founded the Pygmy Fund in 1974 to assist Pygmy peoples, recognizes the dialect on "Sweet Lullaby" as Baka, spoken in central Africa.

This hypothesis has been criticized by Teuku Jacob and colleagues who argue that LB1 is similar to the pygmy peoples who populate a Flores village, Rampasasa, - and who point out that size can vary substantially in pygmy populations.