Bantu languages - Wikipedia
Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, and throughout Central, Southern, Eastern, and Southeast Africa. About one-sixth of Bantu speakers, and one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
List of Bantu languages - Wikipedia
Following is a list of Bantu languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström, and following the Guthrie classification. [1]
Bantu peoples - Wikipedia
The Bantu peoples are an indigenous ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to countries spread over a vast area from West Africa, to Central Africa, Southeast Africa and into Southern Africa.
Bantu languages | Definition, Characteristics, & Facts | Britannica
5 天之前 · Twelve Bantu languages are spoken by more than five million people, including Rundi, Rwanda, Shona, Xhosa, and Zulu. Swahili, which is spoken by five million people as a mother tongue and some 30 million as a second language, is a Bantu lingua franca important in both commerce and literature.
Bantu languages - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of the present day country of Cameroon; i.e., in the regions commonly known as central Africa, east Africa, and southern Africa. Parts of the Bantu area include languages from other language families (see map).
Bantu peoples | African, Migration & Expansion | Britannica
2024年11月15日 · Bantu peoples, the approximately 85 million speakers of the more than 500 distinct languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family, occupying almost the entire southern projection of the African continent.
THE BANTU LANGUAGE: DEFINITION, CHARACTERISTICS
In this paper we present a new, lexicon-based phylogeny of 34 Southern Bantu languages, and combine it with previous insights from linguistics, archaeology, and genetics to study the history of Southern Bantu languages and their speakers.
The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples
2023年11月29日 · The expansion of people speaking Bantu languages is the most dramatic demographic event in Late Holocene Africa and fundamentally reshaped the linguistic, cultural and biological landscape of...
Bantu Historical Linguistic Database
Explore Bantu Social History through Language, Maps, Oral Tradition, Ethnography, and Art. This project involves collection, analysis, digital mapping, and interpretation of historical linguistic data relating to more than seventy Bantu-speaking societies living across Eastern and Central Africa.
Bantu languages - Encyclopedia.com
Bantu contains hundreds of languages that are spoken by 120 million Africans in the Congo Basin, Angola, the Republic of South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, and Kenya. The word Bantu means "the people" and is made up of the stem -ntu ( "person" ) and the plural prefix ba -. The total number of Bantu languages is uncertain.