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The Bantu languages (English: UK: / ˌbænˈtuː /, US: / ˈbæntuː / Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) [1][2] are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
12 paź 2024 · Bantu languages, a group of some 500 languages belonging to the Bantoid subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. 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.
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].
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.
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.
The country has 28 languages (see Figure 1), belonging to three main language families: Bantu (a subbranch of Niger–Congo), Khoesan (Khoisan), and Germanic (a subbranch of Indo-European).
29 lis 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...
