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Bantu languages

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bantunoun(uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
great lakes bantu languagesThe Great Lakes Bantu languages, also known as Lacustrine Bantu and Bantu zone J, are a group of Bantu languages of East Africa.
nguni languagesa group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini) by the Nguni people.
northeast bantu languagesa group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa.
languages of zambiaZambia has several major indigenous languages, all members of the Bantu family, as well as Khwedam, Zambian Sign Language, several immigrant languages and the pidgins Settla and Fanagalo.
proto-bantu languageProto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages.
swazi languageSwazi or siSwati is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and South Africa by the Swati people.
bemba peopleThe Bemba belong to a large group of Bantu peoples, primarily in the Northern, Luapula, Muchinga and the northern Central Province of Zambia.
swazinounA person from Swaziland/Eswatini or of Swazi/Swati descent originally migrating from Central Africa.
rwanda-rundinounKinyarwanda and Kirundi, considered as dialects of the same language
nilotic languagesa group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples.
nguni peoplea linguistic cultural group of Bantu cattle herders who migrated from central Africa into Southern Africa, made up of ethnic groups formed from iron age and proto-agrarians, with offshoots in neighboring colonially-created countries in Southern Africa.
khoe languagesThe Khoe (Menan du Plessis The Khoisan Languages of Southern Africa ) languages are the largest of the non-Bantu language families indigenous to Southern Africa.
lubanounA member of any of various groups of agricultural and hunting people inhabiting the southeastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo.
southern bantu languagesa large group of Bantu languages, largely validated in Janson.
northern ndebele peoplea Nguni ethnic group native to Southern Africa.
chewa peopleThe Chewa (or AChewa) are a Bantu ethnic group found in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and few in Mozambique.
sothonounA group of closely related Bantu lects spoken in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zambia.
sotho peopleThe Sotho, also known as the Basotho, are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group who have long inhabited Southern Africa.
northern ndebelenounAn African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of Zimbabwe.

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