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...

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...

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...

Northeast Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa. In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones E50...

Bantu languages Classification of Pygmy languages List of endangered languages in Africa Hammarström, Harald (2019). An inventory of Bantu languages. In:...

word "people", common to many of the Bantu languages. The Oxford Dictionary of South African English describes "Bantu", when used in a contemporary usage...

The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are...

Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages. It is thought to have originally...

become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was a practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO...

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...

The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kingdom of eSwatini) by the Nguni people...

of the languages within this language family that includes Bantu. The classification of the relatively divergent family of the Ubangian languages, centred...

found in Africa (see Languages of Africa). Languages spoken locally belong to three broad language families: Niger-Congo (Bantu branch), Nilo-Saharan...

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...

Kavango – Southwest Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages established by Anita Pfouts (2003). The Southwest Bantu languages constitute most of...

language family. It consists of the Northern Bantoid languages and the Southern Bantoid languages, a division which also includes the Bantu languages...

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...

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...

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...

The Somali Bantus (also known as Jareer weyne or Gosha) are a Bantu ethnic minority group in Somalia who primarily reside in the southern part of the country...

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...

"contact-induced" changes in Bantu languages have contributed to the general language shift away from Khoe languages, such as Khwe, to Bantu languages because of the...

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...

is uncertain). Since the Bantu languages are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Bantoid comprises 643 languages as counted by Ethnologue...

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...

Look up Bantu or bantu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Bantu. Bantu may refer to: Bantu languages, constitute...

Bantu languages are indigenous to Mozambique. Portuguese, inherited from the colonial period (see: Portuguese Mozambique), is the official language,...

2007. "Konjo language and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 2022-10-29. Derek Nurse; Gérard Philippson, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge...

scant population, is home to a wide diversity of languages, from multiple language families: Germanic, Bantu, and the various Khoisan families. When Namibia...

other Nguni languages to a lesser extent. Nguni languages are, in turn, classified under the much larger abstraction of Bantu languages. Xhosa is the...