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Guthrie classification of Bantu languages
The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie (1967–1971). These were assigned letters A–S and divided into decades (groups A10, A20, etc.); individual languages were assigned unit numbers (A11, A12, etc.), and dialects further subdivided (A11a, A11b, etc.). This coding system has become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was the only practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO 639-3 coding, and it continues to be widely used. Only Guthrie's Zone S is (sometimes) considered to be a genealogical group; since then a Zone J has been set up as another possible genealogical group bordering the Great Lakes.
The list is first summarized, with links to articles on accepted groups of Bantu languages (bold decade headings). Following that is the complete 1948 list, as updated by Guthrie in 1971 and by Maho in 2009.
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (/ˈbæntuː/), technically the Narrow Bantu languages, constitute a traditional branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages. Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of present-day Cameroon; i.e. in the regions commonly known as Central Africa, Southeast Africa, and Southern Africa. Parts of the Bantu area include languages from other language families (see map).
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers know it as a second language. According to Ethnologue, there are over 180 million L2 (second-language) speakers, but only about 2 million native speakers.
According to Ethnologue, Shona is the most widely spoken as a first language, with 10.8 million speakers (or 14.2 million if Manyika and Ndau are included), followed closely by Zulu, with 10.3 million. Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, but, if grouped together, they have 12.4 million speakers.
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Guthrie classification of Bantu languages
Guthrie classification of Bantu languages, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10102226 / CC BY SA 3.0 #Bantu_languages #Classification_of_African_languages The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie （1967–1971）. These were assigned letters A–S and divided into decades （groups A10, A20, etc.）; individual languages were assigned unit numbers （A11, A12, etc.）, and dialects further subdivided （A11a, A11b, etc.）. This coding system has become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was the only practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO 639-3 coding, and it continues to be widely used. Only Guthrie's Zone S is （sometimes） considered to be a ...
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Bantu languages, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4124 / CC BY SA 3.0 #Bantu_languages #Synthetic_languages #Agglutinative_languages #Southern_Bantoid_languages The Bantu languages （English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀） are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages. For Bantuic, Linguasphere （Part 2, Transafrican phylosector, phylozone 99） has 260 outer languages （which are equivalent to languages, inner languages being dialects）. McWhorter points out, using a comparison of 16 language...
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Tonal Variation in Bantu Language Varieties, SOAS, University of London
This linguistics seminar titled "Tonal Variation in Bantu Language Varieties: The Case of Ikoma-Nata-Isenye" was given by Dr Lotta Aunio, University of Helsinki at SOAS, University on 19 November 2013 (http://bit.ly/11ougca). Find out more about studying Linguistics at SOAS at http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics Abstract: The dialects of Ikoma, Nata, and Isenye are classified as a single language E(J)45 in the updated Guthrie’s list (Maho 2003). These varieties are spoken in the Mara Region (Western Tanzania) by approximately 30,000 speakers. The speakers of these three varieties use these names as ethnonyms and identify themselves with these names. All three varieties seem to be mutually intelligible, if only with minor difficulties and adaptation. However, the nominal tone systems in the...
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#originogbantuname #bantupeople #bantus The Bantu languages (English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa. The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages. For Bantuic, Linguasphere (Part 2, Transafrican phylosector, phylozone 99) has 260 outer languages (which are equivalent to languages, inner languages being dialects). McWhorter points out, using a comparison of 16 languages from Bangi-Moi, Bangi-Ntamba, Koyo-Mboshi, Likwala-Sangha, Ngondi-Ngiri and Northern Mozambiqean, mostly from Guthrie Zone C, that many varieties are mutually intelligible. The total number of Bant...
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Bantu languages The Bantu languages /ˈbæntuː/,2 technically the Narrow Bantu languages as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other Bantoid languages, constitute a traditional branch of the Niger–Congo languages There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility,3 though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages4 Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of present-day Cameroon, that is, in the regions commonly known as Central Africa, Southeast Africa, and Southern Africa Parts of the Bantu area include languages from other language families see map The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers kn...
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#Bantu_languages
#Classification_of_African_languages
The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie （1967–1971）.
These were assigned letters A–S and divided into decades （groups A10, A20, etc.）; individual languages were assigned unit numbers （A11, A12, etc.）, and dialects further subdivided （A11a, A11b, etc.）.
This coding system has become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was the only practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO 639-3 coding, and it continues to be widely used.
Only Guthrie's Zone S is （sometimes） considered to be a genealogical group.
Since Guthrie's time a Zone J （made of languages formerly classified in groups D and E） has been set up as another possible genealogical group bordering the Great Lakes.
The list is first summarized, with links to articles on accepted groups of Bantu languages （bold decade headings）.
Following that is the complete 1948 list, as updated by Guthrie in 1971 and by J. F. Maho in 2009.
The list below reflects Guthrie as updated by Maho （2009）.
Not included in detail are the Northeast Bantu languages characterized by Dahl's Law, which is thought to be a genealogical group, cuts across the Guthrie system, and is covered at Northeast Bantu.
Other groups with dedicated articles, such as Southern Bantu （Zone S） are also only summarized here, so that the initial listing is only a summary and an index for other articles.
Note that Ethnologue made multiple changes to Guthrie in an attempt to make the classification more historically accurate.
However, the changes are inconsistent, and Ethnologue has not been followed here, though it is publicly available online.
Thus a code may mean different things depending on whether Guthrie or SIL is being followed.
（See link below for t...
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Guthrie classification of Bantu languages, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10102226 / CC BY SA 3.0
#Bantu_languages
#Classification_of_African_languages
The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie （1967–1971）.
These were assigned letters A–S and divided into decades （groups A10, A20, etc.）; individual languages were assigned unit numbers （A11, A12, etc.）, and dialects further subdivided （A11a, A11b, etc.）.
This coding system has become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was the only practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO 639-3 coding, and it continues to be widely used.
Only Guthrie's Zone S is （sometimes） considered to be a genealogical group.
Since Guthrie's time a Zone J （made of languages formerly classified in groups D and E） has been set up as another possible genealogical group bordering the Great Lakes.
The list is first summarized, with links to articles on accepted groups of Bantu languages （bold decade headings）.
Following that is the complete 1948 list, as updated by Guthrie in 1971 and by J. F. Maho in 2009.
The list below reflects Guthrie as updated by Maho （2009）.
Not included in detail are the Northeast Bantu languages characterized by Dahl's Law, which is thought to be a genealogical group, cuts across the Guthrie system, and is covered at Northeast Bantu.
Other groups with dedicated articles, such as Southern Bantu （Zone S） are also only summarized here, so that the initial listing is only a summary and an index for other articles.
Note that Ethnologue made multiple changes to Guthrie in an attempt to make the classification more historically accurate.
However, the changes are inconsistent, and Ethnologue has not been followed here, though it is publicly available online.
Thus a code may mean different things depending on whether Guthrie or SIL is being followed.
（See link below for t...
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Bantu languages
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#Southern_...
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#Synthetic_languages
#Agglutinative_languages
#Southern_Bantoid_languages
The Bantu languages （English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀） are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa.
They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages.
For Bantuic, Linguasphere （Part 2, Transafrican phylosector, phylozone 99） has 260 outer languages （which are equivalent to languages, inner languages being dialects）.
McWhorter points out, using a comparison of 16 languages from Bangi-Moi, Bangi-Ntamba, Koyo-Mboshi, Likwala-Sangha, Ngondi-Ngiri and Northern Mozambiqean, mostly from Guthrie Zone C, that many varieties are mutually intelligible.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s （roughly 30% of the total population of Africa or roughly 5% of world population）.
Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa.
About one-sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone （c. 60 million speakers as of 2015）.
See list of Bantu peoples.
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language （L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015）.
Other major Bantu languages include Zulu with 12 million speakers and Shona with less than 10 million speakers （if Manyika and Ndau are included） （Zimbabwe has Kalanga, Matebele, Nambiya and Xhosa speakers）.
Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which together have 20 million ...
https://wn.com/Bantu_Languages
Bantu languages, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4124 / CC BY SA 3.0
#Bantu_languages
#Synthetic_languages
#Agglutinative_languages
#Southern_Bantoid_languages
The Bantu languages （English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀） are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa.
They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages.
For Bantuic, Linguasphere （Part 2, Transafrican phylosector, phylozone 99） has 260 outer languages （which are equivalent to languages, inner languages being dialects）.
McWhorter points out, using a comparison of 16 languages from Bangi-Moi, Bangi-Ntamba, Koyo-Mboshi, Likwala-Sangha, Ngondi-Ngiri and Northern Mozambiqean, mostly from Guthrie Zone C, that many varieties are mutually intelligible.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s （roughly 30% of the total population of Africa or roughly 5% of world population）.
Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa.
About one-sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone （c. 60 million speakers as of 2015）.
See list of Bantu peoples.
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language （L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015）.
Other major Bantu languages include Zulu with 12 million speakers and Shona with less than 10 million speakers （if Manyika and Ndau are included） （Zimbabwe has Kalanga, Matebele, Nambiya and Xhosa speakers）.
Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which together have 20 million ...
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Tonal Variation in Bantu Language Varieties, SOAS, University of London
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This linguistics seminar titled "Tonal Variation in Bantu Language Varieties: The Case of Ikoma-Nata-Isenye" was given by Dr Lotta Aunio, University of Helsinki...
This linguistics seminar titled "Tonal Variation in Bantu Language Varieties: The Case of Ikoma-Nata-Isenye" was given by Dr Lotta Aunio, University of Helsinki at SOAS, University on 19 November 2013 (http://bit.ly/11ougca).
Find out more about studying Linguistics at SOAS at http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics
Abstract:
The dialects of Ikoma, Nata, and Isenye are classified as a single language E(J)45 in the updated Guthrie’s list (Maho 2003). These varieties are spoken in the Mara Region (Western Tanzania) by approximately 30,000 speakers. The speakers of these three varieties use these names as ethnonyms and identify themselves with these names. All three varieties seem to be mutually intelligible, if only with minor difficulties and adaptation. However, the nominal tone systems in these varieties vary considerably.
All three varieties have two level tones, which are analysed as H and Ø (nothing), since only the H tones interact with each other. L tone is assigned as a default to any syllable that is not associated with a H after the tonal rules.
On surface level, many nouns in all three varieties have the same tonal realizations, which leads to the first assumption that these varieties have the same underlying organization of the tones. When comparing the nominal tone systems we will see that, despite similar surface forms, the underlying tonal systems in these three varieties are typologically different.
Hyman (2009) presents two criteria for stress languages:
a. OBLIGATORINESS: every lexical word has AT LEAST one syllable marked for the highest degree of metrical prominence (primary stress)
b. CULMINATIVITY: every lexical word has AT MOST one syllable marked for the highest degree of metrical prominence.
I will show that Nata meets both criteria for stress languages and can thus be analyzed as a stress system in which a H tone represents the highest prominence in a word (Anghelescu 2013). In Isenye, only the criterion for obligatoriness is satisfied, whereas Ikoma has to be analyzed as a tonal language since it fulfills neither of the criteria.
Anghelescu, A. 2013. Morphophonology and tone in Nata. Paper presented at the Bantu 5 conference, Paris, 12–15 June 2013.
Hyman, L.M. 2009. How (not) to do phonological typology: the case of pitch-accent. Language Sciences 31:213–238.
Maho, J. 2003. A classification of the Bantu languages: an update of Guthrie’s referential system. In Nurse & Philippson (eds), The Bantu Languages, 639–651.
https://wn.com/Tonal_Variation_In_Bantu_Language_Varieties,_Soas,_University_Of_London
This linguistics seminar titled "Tonal Variation in Bantu Language Varieties: The Case of Ikoma-Nata-Isenye" was given by Dr Lotta Aunio, University of Helsinki at SOAS, University on 19 November 2013 (http://bit.ly/11ougca).
Find out more about studying Linguistics at SOAS at http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics
Abstract:
The dialects of Ikoma, Nata, and Isenye are classified as a single language E(J)45 in the updated Guthrie’s list (Maho 2003). These varieties are spoken in the Mara Region (Western Tanzania) by approximately 30,000 speakers. The speakers of these three varieties use these names as ethnonyms and identify themselves with these names. All three varieties seem to be mutually intelligible, if only with minor difficulties and adaptation. However, the nominal tone systems in these varieties vary considerably.
All three varieties have two level tones, which are analysed as H and Ø (nothing), since only the H tones interact with each other. L tone is assigned as a default to any syllable that is not associated with a H after the tonal rules.
On surface level, many nouns in all three varieties have the same tonal realizations, which leads to the first assumption that these varieties have the same underlying organization of the tones. When comparing the nominal tone systems we will see that, despite similar surface forms, the underlying tonal systems in these three varieties are typologically different.
Hyman (2009) presents two criteria for stress languages:
a. OBLIGATORINESS: every lexical word has AT LEAST one syllable marked for the highest degree of metrical prominence (primary stress)
b. CULMINATIVITY: every lexical word has AT MOST one syllable marked for the highest degree of metrical prominence.
I will show that Nata meets both criteria for stress languages and can thus be analyzed as a stress system in which a H tone represents the highest prominence in a word (Anghelescu 2013). In Isenye, only the criterion for obligatoriness is satisfied, whereas Ikoma has to be analyzed as a tonal language since it fulfills neither of the criteria.
Anghelescu, A. 2013. Morphophonology and tone in Nata. Paper presented at the Bantu 5 conference, Paris, 12–15 June 2013.
Hyman, L.M. 2009. How (not) to do phonological typology: the case of pitch-accent. Language Sciences 31:213–238.
Maho, J. 2003. A classification of the Bantu languages: an update of Guthrie’s referential system. In Nurse & Philippson (eds), The Bantu Languages, 639–651.
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Origin of Bantu Name |Afro Dialogue
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#originogbantuname #bantupeople #bantus
The Bantu languages (English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peo...
#originogbantuname #bantupeople #bantus
The Bantu languages (English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages. For Bantuic, Linguasphere (Part 2, Transafrican phylosector, phylozone 99) has 260 outer languages (which are equivalent to languages, inner languages being dialects). McWhorter points out, using a comparison of 16 languages from Bangi-Moi, Bangi-Ntamba, Koyo-Mboshi, Likwala-Sangha, Ngondi-Ngiri and Northern Mozambiqean, mostly from Guthrie Zone C, that many varieties are mutually intelligible.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s (roughly 30% of the total population of Africa or roughly 5% of world population).[3] Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa. About one-sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone (c. 60 million speakers as of 2015). See list of Bantu peoples.
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language (L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015).
Other major Bantu languages include Zulu with 12 million speakers, Tiv with over 7 million speakers (mostly in Nigeria and some in Cameroon), and Shona with about 15 million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included). Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which together have 20 million speakers
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#originogbantuname #bantupeople #bantus
The Bantu languages (English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages. For Bantuic, Linguasphere (Part 2, Transafrican phylosector, phylozone 99) has 260 outer languages (which are equivalent to languages, inner languages being dialects). McWhorter points out, using a comparison of 16 languages from Bangi-Moi, Bangi-Ntamba, Koyo-Mboshi, Likwala-Sangha, Ngondi-Ngiri and Northern Mozambiqean, mostly from Guthrie Zone C, that many varieties are mutually intelligible.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s (roughly 30% of the total population of Africa or roughly 5% of world population).[3] Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa. About one-sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone (c. 60 million speakers as of 2015). See list of Bantu peoples.
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language (L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015).
Other major Bantu languages include Zulu with 12 million speakers, Tiv with over 7 million speakers (mostly in Nigeria and some in Cameroon), and Shona with about 15 million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included). Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which together have 20 million speakers
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Prof. Lutz Marten (SOAS): Linguistic Variation, Language Contact and the New Comparative Bantu
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This Inaugural Lecture by Professor Lutz Marten (Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa) entitled "Linguistic Variation, Language Contact and the Ne...
This Inaugural Lecture by Professor Lutz Marten (Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa) entitled "Linguistic Variation, Language Contact and the New Comparative Bantu" was given at SOAS, University of London on 18 April 2013.
Synopsis: Bantu languages are the most well-known group of African languages with a scholarly tradition dating back to the 17th century. Yet despite longstanding efforts, an internal classification of Bantu languages into distinct sub-groups has not been established. This lecture sketches a different way of looking at the relation between Bantu languages by focussing on structural properties, morphosyntactic comparison and an explanation which involves the use of many Bantu languages in multilingual contexts.
Further information about this event: http://bit.ly/WEPKh9
Further information about the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at SOAS, University of London: http://www.soas.ac.uk/africa/
Further information about the Department of the Linguistics at SOAS, University of London: http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/
Biography: Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics and holds a joint appointment in SOAS's departments of Linguistics and African Languages and Cultures. His work focuses on the linguistic description and analysis of Bantu languages such as Bemba, Herero and Swahili, and he has conducted several fieldwork projects in Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia. He is particularly interested in the relation between structural aspects of language and the dimensions of meaning and use in which they are embedded.
https://wn.com/Prof._Lutz_Marten_(Soas)_Linguistic_Variation,_Language_Contact_And_The_New_Comparative_Bantu
This Inaugural Lecture by Professor Lutz Marten (Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa) entitled "Linguistic Variation, Language Contact and the New Comparative Bantu" was given at SOAS, University of London on 18 April 2013.
Synopsis: Bantu languages are the most well-known group of African languages with a scholarly tradition dating back to the 17th century. Yet despite longstanding efforts, an internal classification of Bantu languages into distinct sub-groups has not been established. This lecture sketches a different way of looking at the relation between Bantu languages by focussing on structural properties, morphosyntactic comparison and an explanation which involves the use of many Bantu languages in multilingual contexts.
Further information about this event: http://bit.ly/WEPKh9
Further information about the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at SOAS, University of London: http://www.soas.ac.uk/africa/
Further information about the Department of the Linguistics at SOAS, University of London: http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/
Biography: Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics and holds a joint appointment in SOAS's departments of Linguistics and African Languages and Cultures. His work focuses on the linguistic description and analysis of Bantu languages such as Bemba, Herero and Swahili, and he has conducted several fieldwork projects in Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia. He is particularly interested in the relation between structural aspects of language and the dimensions of meaning and use in which they are embedded.
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Swahili versus Bantu: The Rise and Spread of Language
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Comparing the origins and spread of both languages.
Comparing the origins and spread of both languages.
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Comparing the origins and spread of both languages.
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The Bible Was Written in Bantu Languages
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What are Bantu People
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Bantu languages
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages /ˈbæntuː/,2 technically the Narrow Bantu languages as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includ...
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages /ˈbæntuː/,2 technically the Narrow Bantu languages as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other Bantoid languages, constitute a traditional branch of the Niger–Congo languages There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility,3 though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages4 Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of present-day Cameroon, that is, in the regions commonly known as Central Africa, Southeast Africa, and Southern Africa Parts of the Bantu area include languages from other language families see map
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers know it as a second language According to Ethnologue, there are over 180 million L2 second-language speakers, but only about 2 million native speakers5
According to Ethnologue, Shona is the most widely spoken as a first language,6 with 108 million speakers or 142 million if Manyika and Ndau are included, fobantu languages, bantu languages in africa, bantu languages wikipedia, bantu languages map, bantu languages classification, bantu languages rhetorical patterns Bantu languages
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages /ˈbæntuː/,2 technically the Narrow Bantu languages as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other Bantoid languages, constitute a traditional branch of the Niger–Congo languages There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility,3 though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages4 Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of present-day Cameroon, that is, in the regions commonly known as Central Africa, Southeast Africa, and Southern Africa Parts of the Bantu area include languages from other language families see map
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers know it as a second language According to Ethnologue, there are over 180 million L2 second-language speakers, but only about 2 million native speakers5
According to Ethnologue, Shona is the most widely spoken as a first language,6 with 108 million speakers or 142 million if Manyika and Ndau are included, fobantu languages, bantu languages in africa, bantu languages wikipedia, bantu languages map, bantu languages classification, bantu languages rhetorical patterns Bantu languages
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The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) technically the Narrow Bantu languages, as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other "Bantoid" languages, are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
As part of the Southern Bantoid group, they are part of the Benue-Congo language family, which in turn is part of the large Niger–Congo phylum.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" vs. "dialect" estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s (roughly 30% of the total population of Africa, or roughly 5% of world population).
Bantu languages are largely spoken east and south of present-day Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa.
Estimates of number of speakers of most languages vary widely, due to the lack of accurate statistics in most sub-Saharan countries. The number of Bantu speakers accounts for roughly half of all speakers of Niger-Congo languages, or more than a quarter of the entire population of Africa, roughly 350 million people in the mid-2010s. About one sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone (c. 60 million speakers as of 2015). (see list of Bantu peoples).
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language (L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015)Other major Bantu languages include Zulu, with 27 million speakers (15.7 million L2), and Shona, with about 11 million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included). Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which, if grouped together, have 12.4 million speakers.
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SUMMARY
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The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) technically the Narrow Bantu languages, as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other "Bantoid" languages, are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
As part of the Southern Bantoid group, they are part of the Benue-Congo language family, which in turn is part of the large Niger–Congo phylum.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" vs. "dialect" estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s (roughly 30% of the total population of Africa, or roughly 5% of world population).
Bantu languages are largely spoken east and south of present-day Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa.
Estimates of number of speakers of most languages vary widely, due to the lack of accurate statistics in most sub-Saharan countries. The number of Bantu speakers accounts for roughly half of all speakers of Niger-Congo languages, or more than a quarter of the entire population of Africa, roughly 350 million people in the mid-2010s. About one sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone (c. 60 million speakers as of 2015). (see list of Bantu peoples).
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language (L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015)Other major Bantu languages include Zulu, with 27 million speakers (15.7 million L2), and Shona, with about 11 million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included). Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which, if grouped together, have 12.4 million speakers.
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Hebrew is a Bantu language
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Ashkenazis can’t read the word of God, because it isn’t their language… we can read and understand because we created it! Hebrew is African and a Bantu language...
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Guthrie classification of Bantu languages
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#Classification_of_African_languages
The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie （1967–1971）.
These were assigned letters A–S and divided into decades （groups A10, A20, etc.）; individual languages were assigned unit numbers （A11, A12, etc.）, and dialects further subdivided （A11a, A11b, etc.）.
This coding system has become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was the only practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO 639-3 coding, and it continues to be widely used.
Only Guthrie's Zone S is （sometimes） considered to be a genealogical group.
Since Guthrie's time a Zone J （made of languages formerly classified in groups D and E） has been set up as another possible genealogical group bordering the Great Lakes.
The list is first summarized, with links to articles on accepted groups of Bantu languages （bold decade headings）.
Following that is the complete 1948 list, as updated by Guthrie in 1971 and by J. F. Maho in 2009.
The list below reflects Guthrie as updated by Maho （2009）.
Not included in detail are the Northeast Bantu languages characterized by Dahl's Law, which is thought to be a genealogical group, cuts across the Guthrie system, and is covered at Northeast Bantu.
Other groups with dedicated articles, such as Southern Bantu （Zone S） are also only summarized here, so that the initial listing is only a summary and an index for other articles.
Note that Ethnologue made multiple changes to Guthrie in an attempt to make the classification more historically accurate.
However, the changes are inconsistent, and Ethnologue has not been followed here, though it is publicly available online.
Thus a code may mean different things depending on whether Guthrie or SIL is being followed.
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Bantu languages
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#Southern_Bantoid_languages
The Bantu languages （English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀） are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa.
They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages.
For Bantuic, Linguasphere （Part 2, Transafrican phylosector, phylozone 99） has 260 outer languages （which are equivalent to languages, inner languages being dialects）.
McWhorter points out, using a comparison of 16 languages from Bangi-Moi, Bangi-Ntamba, Koyo-Mboshi, Likwala-Sangha, Ngondi-Ngiri and Northern Mozambiqean, mostly from Guthrie Zone C, that many varieties are mutually intelligible.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s （roughly 30% of the total population of Africa or roughly 5% of world population）.
Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa.
About one-sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone （c. 60 million speakers as of 2015）.
See list of Bantu peoples.
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language （L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015）.
Other major Bantu languages include Zulu with 12 million speakers and Shona with less than 10 million speakers （if Manyika and Ndau are included） （Zimbabwe has Kalanga, Matebele, Nambiya and Xhosa speakers）.
Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which together have 20 million ...
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Tonal Variation in Bantu Language Varieties, SOAS, University of London
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This linguistics seminar titled "Tonal Variation in Bantu Language Varieties: The Case of Ikoma-Nata-Isenye" was given by Dr Lotta Aunio, University of Helsinki at SOAS, University on 19 November 2013 (http://bit.ly/11ougca).
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The dialects of Ikoma, Nata, and Isenye are classified as a single language E(J)45 in the updated Guthrie’s list (Maho 2003). These varieties are spoken in the Mara Region (Western Tanzania) by approximately 30,000 speakers. The speakers of these three varieties use these names as ethnonyms and identify themselves with these names. All three varieties seem to be mutually intelligible, if only with minor difficulties and adaptation. However, the nominal tone systems in these varieties vary considerably.
All three varieties have two level tones, which are analysed as H and Ø (nothing), since only the H tones interact with each other. L tone is assigned as a default to any syllable that is not associated with a H after the tonal rules.
On surface level, many nouns in all three varieties have the same tonal realizations, which leads to the first assumption that these varieties have the same underlying organization of the tones. When comparing the nominal tone systems we will see that, despite similar surface forms, the underlying tonal systems in these three varieties are typologically different.
Hyman (2009) presents two criteria for stress languages:
a. OBLIGATORINESS: every lexical word has AT LEAST one syllable marked for the highest degree of metrical prominence (primary stress)
b. CULMINATIVITY: every lexical word has AT MOST one syllable marked for the highest degree of metrical prominence.
I will show that Nata meets both criteria for stress languages and can thus be analyzed as a stress system in which a H tone represents the highest prominence in a word (Anghelescu 2013). In Isenye, only the criterion for obligatoriness is satisfied, whereas Ikoma has to be analyzed as a tonal language since it fulfills neither of the criteria.
Anghelescu, A. 2013. Morphophonology and tone in Nata. Paper presented at the Bantu 5 conference, Paris, 12–15 June 2013.
Hyman, L.M. 2009. How (not) to do phonological typology: the case of pitch-accent. Language Sciences 31:213–238.
Maho, J. 2003. A classification of the Bantu languages: an update of Guthrie’s referential system. In Nurse & Philippson (eds), The Bantu Languages, 639–651.
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The Bantu languages (English: /ˈbæntuː/, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples in the southern half of Africa.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages. For Bantuic, Linguasphere (Part 2, Transafrican phylosector, phylozone 99) has 260 outer languages (which are equivalent to languages, inner languages being dialects). McWhorter points out, using a comparison of 16 languages from Bangi-Moi, Bangi-Ntamba, Koyo-Mboshi, Likwala-Sangha, Ngondi-Ngiri and Northern Mozambiqean, mostly from Guthrie Zone C, that many varieties are mutually intelligible.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s (roughly 30% of the total population of Africa or roughly 5% of world population).[3] Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa. About one-sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone (c. 60 million speakers as of 2015). See list of Bantu peoples.
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language (L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015).
Other major Bantu languages include Zulu with 12 million speakers, Tiv with over 7 million speakers (mostly in Nigeria and some in Cameroon), and Shona with about 15 million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included). Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which together have 20 million speakers
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Prof. Lutz Marten (SOAS): Linguistic Variation, Language Contact and the New Comparative Bantu
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This Inaugural Lecture by Professor Lutz Marten (Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa) entitled "Linguistic Variation, Language Contact and the New Comparative Bantu" was given at SOAS, University of London on 18 April 2013.
Synopsis: Bantu languages are the most well-known group of African languages with a scholarly tradition dating back to the 17th century. Yet despite longstanding efforts, an internal classification of Bantu languages into distinct sub-groups has not been established. This lecture sketches a different way of looking at the relation between Bantu languages by focussing on structural properties, morphosyntactic comparison and an explanation which involves the use of many Bantu languages in multilingual contexts.
Further information about this event: http://bit.ly/WEPKh9
Further information about the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at SOAS, University of London: http://www.soas.ac.uk/africa/
Further information about the Department of the Linguistics at SOAS, University of London: http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/
Biography: Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics and holds a joint appointment in SOAS's departments of Linguistics and African Languages and Cultures. His work focuses on the linguistic description and analysis of Bantu languages such as Bemba, Herero and Swahili, and he has conducted several fieldwork projects in Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia. He is particularly interested in the relation between structural aspects of language and the dimensions of meaning and use in which they are embedded.
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Swahili versus Bantu: The Rise and Spread of Language
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The Bible Was Written in Bantu Languages
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages /ˈbæntuː/,2 technically the Narrow Bantu languages as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other Bantoid languages, constitute a traditional branch of the Niger–Congo languages There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility,3 though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages4 Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of present-day Cameroon, that is, in the regions commonly known as Central Africa, Southeast Africa, and Southern Africa Parts of the Bantu area include languages from other language families see map
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers know it as a second language According to Ethnologue, there are over 180 million L2 second-language speakers, but only about 2 million native speakers5
According to Ethnologue, Shona is the most widely spoken as a first language,6 with 108 million speakers or 142 million if Manyika and Ndau are included, fobantu languages, bantu languages in africa, bantu languages wikipedia, bantu languages map, bantu languages classification, bantu languages rhetorical patterns Bantu languages
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Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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SUMMARY
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The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) technically the Narrow Bantu languages, as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other "Bantoid" languages, are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
As part of the Southern Bantoid group, they are part of the Benue-Congo language family, which in turn is part of the large Niger–Congo phylum.
The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" vs. "dialect" estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages.
The total number of Bantu speakers is in the hundreds of millions, estimated around 350 million in the mid-2010s (roughly 30% of the total population of Africa, or roughly 5% of world population).
Bantu languages are largely spoken east and south of present-day Cameroon, throughout Central Africa, Southeast Africa and Southern Africa.
Estimates of number of speakers of most languages vary widely, due to the lack of accurate statistics in most sub-Saharan countries. The number of Bantu speakers accounts for roughly half of all speakers of Niger-Congo languages, or more than a quarter of the entire population of Africa, roughly 350 million people in the mid-2010s. About one sixth of the Bantu speakers, and about one third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone (c. 60 million speakers as of 2015). (see list of Bantu peoples).
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili; however, the majority of its speakers use it as a second language (L1: c. 16 million, L2: 80 million, as of 2015)Other major Bantu languages include Zulu, with 27 million speakers (15.7 million L2), and Shona, with about 11 million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included). Ethnologue separates the largely mutually intelligible Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, which, if grouped together, have 12.4 million speakers.
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Hebrew is a Bantu language
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Guthrie classification of Bantu languages
The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie (1967–1971). These were assigned letters A–S and divided into decades (groups A10, A20, etc.); individual languages were assigned unit numbers (A11, A12, etc.), and dialects further subdivided (A11a, A11b, etc.). This coding system has become the standard for identifying Bantu languages; it was the only practical way to distinguish many ambiguously named languages before the introduction of ISO 639-3 coding, and it continues to be widely used. Only Guthrie's Zone S is (sometimes) considered to be a genealogical group; since then a Zone J has been set up as another possible genealogical group bordering the Great Lakes.
The list is first summarized, with links to articles on accepted groups of Bantu languages (bold decade headings). Following that is the complete 1948 list, as updated by Guthrie in 1971 and by Maho in 2009.
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