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Bantu peoples
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Bantu peoples
Bantu peoples
is used as a general label for the 300–600
ethnic groups in Africa
who speak
Bantu languages
. They inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from
Central Africa
across the
African Great Lakes
region down to
Southern Africa
. Bantu is a major branch of the
Niger-Congo
language family spoken by most populations in
Africa
. There are about 650 Bantu languages by the criterion of
mutual intelligibility
, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and
Ethnologue
counts 535 languages.
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