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Bantu languages
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Bantu languages

Group of related languages belonging to the Niger-Congo family, spoken widely over the greater part of Africa south of the Sahara, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu. Meaning ‘people’ in Zulu, the word Bantu itself illustrates a characteristic use of prefixes: mu-ntu ‘man’, ba-ntu ‘people’.

The Bantu-speaking peoples probably originated in northern Central Africa. Until 1978, the black people of the Republic of South Africa were officially designated Bantu(s).



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BRANCHING BANTU Clare Janaki Holden, an anthropologist at University College London in England, has used the phylogenetic method to produce a tree of 75 Bantu languages, which are spoken in the southern half of Africa.
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Fishkin's essay serves as a well-documented bibliography and more: From the social and political construction of whiteness to the classification of Jews as black and the appropriation of the word bambi (the Disney deer) from Bantu languages, Fishkin provides succinct and intriguing examples from the works examined.
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The "patrician" elite of the Swahili coast came from urban African Muslims, who spoke a Bantu language (and who may or may not have spoken much Arabic).
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