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The total number of Bantu speakers is estimated to be around 350 million in 2015 (roughly 30% of the population of Africa or 5% of the world population). [6] Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, and throughout Central, Southern, Eastern, and Southeast Africa.
The approximate locations of the sixteen Guthrie Bantu zones, including the addition of a zone J. Following is a list of Bantu languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström, and following the Guthrie classification. [1] Group.
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.
12 paź 2024 · 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.
Języki bantu – rodzina języków afrykańskich, zaliczana do wielkiej rodziny nigero-kongijskiej. W rodzinie tej wyróżnia się ponad 400 języków, którymi posługuje się około 350 milionów osób na terenie niemal całej Czarnej Afryki z wyjątkiem większości Afryki Zachodniej, Półwyspu Somalijskiego oraz południowo-centralnej Namibii i zachodniego RPA [1].
Bantu languages refer to a group of 300 to 600 distinct languages spoken in a large part of Africa, characterized by structural similarities and historical connections. AI generated definition based on: Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition), 2006
15 lis 2024 · 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.