Southern Bantu languages are a large group of Bantu languages, largely validated in Janson (1991/92). They are nearly synonymous with Guthrie's Bantu zone... 3 KB (213 words) - 12:01, 7 February 2024 |
Occasionally grouped as Bantu, the term itself is derived from the English word "people", common to many of the Bantu languages. The Oxford Dictionary... 60 KB (7,700 words) - 20:17, 21 April 2024 |
Bantu languages Classification of Pygmy languages List of endangered languages in Africa Hammarström, Harald (2019). An inventory of Bantu languages. In:... 84 KB (244 words) - 18:01, 18 July 2021 |
Northeast Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa. In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones E50... 3 KB (203 words) - 02:28, 27 December 2023 |
The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are... 48 KB (4,766 words) - 05:18, 21 April 2024 |
The Great Lakes Bantu languages, also known as Lacustrine Bantu and Bantu zone J, are a group of Bantu languages of East Africa. They were recognized as... 5 KB (419 words) - 16:10, 2 March 2024 |
Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages. It is thought to have originally... 20 KB (2,018 words) - 20:35, 21 March 2024 |
The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages indigenous to southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kingdom of eSwatini) by the Nguni people... 10 KB (746 words) - 23:39, 24 April 2024 |
of the languages within this language family that includes Bantu. The classification of the relatively divergent family of the Ubangian languages, centred... 64 KB (7,300 words) - 02:25, 2 May 2024 |
found in Africa (see Languages of Africa). Languages spoken locally belong to three broad language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu branch) and Nilo-Saharan... 6 KB (521 words) - 17:37, 18 April 2024 |
The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are the Bantu languages spoken along the coast of Tanzania and Kenya, and including inland Tanzania as far as Dodoma... 2 KB (106 words) - 01:46, 5 January 2024 |
Kavango – Southwest Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages established by Anita Pfouts (2003). The Southwest Bantu languages constitute most of... 3 KB (216 words) - 14:01, 26 April 2020 |
Look up Bantu or bantu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Bantu. Bantu may refer to: Bantu languages, constitute... 816 bytes (140 words) - 00:21, 26 April 2022 |
The Somali Bantus (also known as Gosha, or Jareerweyne locally) are a Bantu Bantu are very large ethnic group but sometimes been identified as minority... 33 KB (3,696 words) - 00:49, 2 May 2024 |
basic denominator of all Bantu Languages. All Bantu languages comes from Shona, which gives the base bantu language, the language has grown and widely spread... 21 KB (1,553 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024 |
Like Swahili, the Comorian languages are Sabaki languages, part of the Bantu language family. Each island has its own language, and the four are conventionally... 20 KB (2,008 words) - 16:57, 10 April 2024 |
Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in Lesotho, and South Africa where it is an official language; Like all Bantu languages, Sesotho... 18 KB (1,604 words) - 03:06, 19 April 2024 |
language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also includes the Bantu languages... 4 KB (334 words) - 15:47, 19 January 2024 |
there is a high degree of homogeneity in Bantu cultures and customs, just as in Bantu languages. Many Bantu cultures traditionally believed in a supreme... 25 KB (3,131 words) - 06:46, 5 March 2024 |
to the noun class prefix of nouns in certain Bantu languages. The augment originates in the Proto-Bantu pronominal prefix, which is usually identical... 4 KB (449 words) - 10:13, 18 April 2023 |
The Sotho-Tswana languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa. The Sotho-Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label... 5 KB (448 words) - 20:09, 3 March 2024 |
scant population, is home to a wide diversity of languages, from multiple language families: Germanic, Bantu, and the various Khoisan families. When Namibia... 7 KB (387 words) - 22:29, 21 April 2024 |
Bantu languages are indigenous to Mozambique. Portuguese, inherited from the colonial period (see: Portuguese Mozambique), is the official language,... 9 KB (534 words) - 21:43, 25 February 2024 |
is uncertain). Since the Bantu languages are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Bantoid comprises 643 languages as counted by Ethnologue... 20 KB (386 words) - 01:51, 5 January 2024 |
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya... 108 KB (8,438 words) - 00:20, 30 April 2024 |