Bantu

Bantu languages and linguistics, Langues et linguistique bantu.Bantu languages Group of some 500 languages belonging to the Benue-Congo language branch of the Niger-Congo language family

The CBOLD project was started in 1994 by Larry Hyman and John Lowe to produce in Berkeley a lexicographic database to support and enhance the theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguistic study of the languages in the important Bantu family. The database includes a substantial list of reconstructed Proto-Bantu roots

Bantu is a major language family of Africa, belonging to the Niger-Congo parent family (or phylum). Bantu languages are spoken in south Cameroon, and in the south-eastern region of Nigeria close to the Cameroonian border, in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and the southern tip of Somalia, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa. This wide expansion makes the Bantu family the most widespread language family in Africa, with about 310 million speakers.