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  2. Shona language - Wikipedia

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    Shona (/ ˈ ʃ oʊ n ə /; [5] Shona: chiShona) is a Bantu language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe.The term is variously used to collectively describe all the Central Shonic varieties (comprising Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore and Karanga or Ndau) or specifically Standard Shona, a variety codified in the mid-20th century.

  3. Proto-Bantu language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Bantu language. Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Bantu languages, a subgroup of the Southern Bantoid languages. [2] It is thought to have originally been spoken in West/Central Africa in the area of what is now Cameroon. [3] About 6,000 years ago, it split off from Proto-Southern Bantoid when the Bantu expansion ...

  4. Bantu languages - Wikipedia

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    Non-Bantu languages are greyscale. The Bantu languages (English: UK: / ˌbænˈtuː /, US: / ˈbæntuː / Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) [1][2] are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.

  5. List of Bantu languages - Wikipedia

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    The approximate locations of the sixteen Guthrie Bantu zones, including the addition of a zone J Following is a list of Bantu languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström , and following the Guthrie classification .

  6. Guthrie classification of Bantu languages - Wikipedia

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    The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages " are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie (1967–1971). [1] 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.).

  7. Tswana language - Wikipedia

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    1000–3000 /km². >3000 /km². Tswana, also known by its native name Setswana, and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in and indigenous to Southern Africa by about 8.2 million people. [1] It is closely related to the Northern Sotho and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi language and the Lozi ...

  8. Luhya language - Wikipedia

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    cent2288 Central Luyia (incl. some Nyore) kabr1240 Kabras. Guthrie code. JE.32 [3] Luhya (/ ˈluːjə /; also Luyia, Oluluyia, Luhia or Luhiya) is a Bantu language of western Kenya.

  9. Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment ( BEKE) was a project of the International Missionary Council in coordination with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and British colonial governments of Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in the mid-1930s. [1] The project involved educational films played by mobile cinemas to ...