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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.
Jun 7, 2024 · The Bantu languages are spoken in a very large area, including most of Africa from southern Cameroon eastward to Kenya and southward to the southernmost tip of the continent. Twelve Bantu languages are spoken by more than five million people, including Rundi, Rwanda, Shona, Xhosa, and Zulu.
Following is a list of Bantu languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström, and following the Guthrie classification.
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.
There are an estimated 450–550 Bantu languages, spoken by about 250 million speakers in 27 countries, from the Nigerian-Cameroonian borderland in the northwest of the Bantu-speaking area to Kenya in the northeast and to South Africa in the south (see Map 14.1).
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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 native to 24 countries spread over a vast area from Central Africa to Southeast Africa and into Southern Africa .
Nov 29, 2023 · 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...
Aug 12, 2017 · Shona, spoken in Zimbabwe, is the Bantu language with the most native speakers. I haven’t studied at any of these at all, but if you want to, now you know where to find materials for them. So ...
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.
