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Map of the major Bantu languages shown within the Niger–Congo language family, with non-Bantu languages in greyscale.. Abantu is the Xhosa and Zulu word for people. It is the plural of the word 'umuntu', meaning 'person', and is based on the stem '--ntu', plus the plural prefix 'aba'.
The Bantu languages (English: UK: / ˌ b æ n ˈ t uː /, US: / ˈ b æ n t uː / 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.
The creation of false homelands or Bantustans (based on dividing South African Bantu language speaking peoples by ethnicity) was a central element of this strategy, the Bantustans were eventually made nominally independent, in order to limit South African Bantu language speaking peoples citizenship to those Bantustans.
The Somali Bantu have remained marginalized ever since the establishment of Somalia. [8] Some Somali Bantu people have been displaced into Kenya, and a small number have returned to Tanzania. [9] An overseas diaspora community of Somali Bantus can be found primarily in the United States. [10]
A Bantustan (also known as a Bantu homeland, a black homeland, a black state or simply known as a homeland; Afrikaans: Bantoestan) was a territory that the National Party administration of South Africa set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as a part of its policy of apartheid.
Other Rwanda-Rundi peoples The Hutu ( / ˈ h uː t uː / ), also known as the Abahutu , are a Bantu ethnic group which is native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda , Burundi , and Uganda where they form one of the principal ethnic groups alongside the Tutsi and the Great Lakes Twa .
For convenience, all Bantu-speaking peoples of South Africa, Banyarwanda and Beti-Pahuin peoples should be included in this category. This includes all ethnic groups that can also be found in the subcategories.
Bantu may refer to: Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages; Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language; Bantu knots, a type of African hairstyle; Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity, a youth activism group in the 1960s; Bantu (band), a band based in Lagos, Nigeria