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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Occasionally grouped as Bantu, the term itself is derived from the English word "people", common to many of the Bantu languages. The Oxford Dictionary...
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    Bantu languages Classification of Pygmy languages List of endangered languages in Africa Hammarström, Harald (2019). An inventory of Bantu languages. In:...
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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...
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  • Northeast Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa. In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones E50...
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  • 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...
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    become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was a practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO...
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  • Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages. It is thought to have originally...
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  • The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages indigenous to southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kingdom of eSwatini) by the Nguni people...
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