The Vidunda are a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group based in Morogoro Region, Tanzania.

The Kwere are a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group based in the Bagamoyo District, Pwani Region of coastal Tanzania.

This may be the reason that the Dhivehi kinship system is partly of Dravidian origin, and bears evidence of some matriliny, like the Nayar and other matrilineal groups of Kerala.

The Minangs are one of the world's largest matrilineal societies/cultures/ethnic groups, with a population of 4 million in their home province West Sumatra in Indonesia and about 4 million elsewhere, mostly in Indonesia.

The gens had therefore to be a matrilineal group; that is, a group to which you belong by claiming descent in the female line.

The Luguru (or Ruguru) are a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group from Pwani Region and Morogoro Region in Tanzania.

The "Socio geographic units" of the Matengo originally consisted of a political organization, which was "non-hierarchical, comprising a collectivity of sovereign matrilineal groups of equivalent status and diverse origins.

These matrilineal groups are highly stable.

Among matrilineal groups, such as the Akan, married women continued to reside at their maternal homes.

The Kutu are a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group based in the Morogoro Region of central Tanzania.