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Most claimed Proto-Bantu is either confined to particular subgroups, or is widely attested outside Bantu proper." [ 6 ] According to this hypothesis, Bantu is actually a polyphyletic group that combines a number of smaller language families which ultimately belong to the (much larger) Southern Bantoid language family .
Proto-Eskimo–Aleut. Proto-Eskimo. Proto-Inuit; Proto-Algic. Proto-Algonquian; Proto-Muskogean; Proto-Iroquoian; Proto-Uto-Aztecan. Proto-Nahuan; Proto-Mayan; Proto-Mixe–Zoquean language; Proto-Totonacan language; Proto-Na-Dené. Proto-Athabaskan; Proto-Oto-Manguean Proto-Otomí Proto-Mixtecan Proto-Mixtec Proto-Tucanoan Proto-Tupian
The Bantu languages descend from a common Proto-Bantu language, which is believed to have been spoken in what is now Cameroon in Central Africa. [21] An estimated 2,500–3,000 years ago (1000 BC to 500 BC), speakers of the Proto-Bantu language began a series of migrations eastward and southward, carrying agriculture with them.
Old Korean is generally defined as the ancient Koreanic language of the Silla state (57 BCE – 936 CE), [3] especially in its Unified period (668–936). [4] [5] Proto-Koreanic, the hypothetical ancestor of the Koreanic languages understood largely through the internal reconstruction of later forms of Korean, [6] is to be distinguished from the actually historically attested language of Old ...
It is Southern Bantoid which contains the Bantu languages, which are spoken across most of Sub-Saharan Africa. This makes Benue–Congo one of the largest subdivisions of the Niger–Congo language family, both in number of languages, of which Ethnologue counts 976 (2017), and in speakers, numbering perhaps 350 million.
The Bantu expansion [3] [4] [5] was a major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, [6] [7] which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa. In the process, the Proto-Bantu-speaking settlers displaced, eliminated or absorbed pre-existing hunter-gatherer and pastoralist groups that they encountered.
Bantu. Northeast Bantu. Great Lakes Bantu. West Nyanza; Proto-language: Proto-West Nyanza [1] Subdivisions: Rutara; North Nyanza; Language codes; ISO 639-3 ...
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