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    The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu...
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  • 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...
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    Occasionally grouped as Bantu, the term itself is derived from the English word "people", common to many of the Bantu languages. The Oxford Dictionary...
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    Bantu languages Classification of Pygmy languages List of endangered languages in Africa Hammarström, Harald (2019). An inventory of Bantu languages. In:...
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  • Northeast Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa. In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones E50...
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    The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are...
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  • 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...
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    become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was a practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO...
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  • Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages. It is thought to have originally...
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  • 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...
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    original speakers. The linguistic core of the Bantu languages, which comprise a branch of the Atlantic-Congo language family, was located in the southern regions...
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    of the languages within this language family that includes Bantu. The classification of the relatively divergent family of the Ubangian languages, centred...
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    Tswa–Ronga family of languages. Tswana is a Bantu language that is one of Zimbabwe's official languages. Venda is a Bantu language that is one of Zimbabwe's...
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  • found in Africa (see Languages of Africa). Languages spoken locally belong to three broad language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu branch) and Nilo-Saharan...
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  • 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...
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  • Kavango – Southwest Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages established by Anita Pfouts (2003). The Southwest Bantu languages constitute most of...
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  • Look up Bantu or bantu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Bantu. Bantu may refer to: Bantu languages, constitute...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also includes the Bantu languages...
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    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...
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  • to the noun class prefix of nouns in certain Bantu languages. The augment originates in the Proto-Bantu pronominal prefix, which is usually identical...
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  • 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...
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    scant population, is home to a wide diversity of languages, from multiple language families: Germanic, Bantu, and the various Khoisan families. When Namibia...
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    official language of Angola, but 46 other languages are spoken in the country, mostly Bantu languages. Portuguese is the sole official language. Due to...
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    Bantu languages are indigenous to Mozambique. Portuguese, inherited from the colonial period (see: Portuguese Mozambique), is the official language,...
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    is uncertain). Since the Bantu languages are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Bantoid comprises 643 languages as counted by Ethnologue...
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    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...
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