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Nguni languages

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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.
southern ndebele peopleAmaNdebele are an ethnic group native to South Africa who speak isiNdebele.
ndwandwea Bantu Nguni-speaking people who populate sections of southern Africa.
northeast bantu languagesa group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa.
southern ndebele languageisiNdebele, also known as Southern Ndebele is an African language belonging to the Mbo group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Ndebele people of South Africa.
bantu languagesThe (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.
swazi languageSwazi or siSwati is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and South Africa by the Swati people.
northern ndebele peoplea Nguni ethnic group native to Southern Africa.
nubian languagesa group of related languages spoken by the Nubians.
nilotic languagesa group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples.
rwanda-rundinounKinyarwanda and Kirundi, considered as dialects of the same language
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.
sotho peopleThe Sotho, also known as the Basotho, are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group who have long inhabited Southern Africa.
nama peopleNama (in older sources also called Namaqua) are an African ethnic group of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
tswana peopleThe Tswana (singular Motswana) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa.
bantu peoplesan indigenous ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.
northern ndebele languageNorthern Ndebele, also called Ndebele, isiNdebele saseNyakatho, Zimbabwean Ndebele, Sindebele or North Ndebele, associated with the term Matabele, is a Bantu language spoken by the Northern Ndebele people which belongs to the Nguni group of languages.
kalenjin languagesa family of a dozen Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania.
hlubi peopleThe Hlubi people or AmaHlubi are an AmaMbo ethnic group native to Southern Africa, with the majority of population found in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=1c047c188ca9f7cf64bf84dd0bd77a7495766185
dinka languageDinka (natively , or simply ) is a Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, a major ethnic group of South Sudan.

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