Af-Bantu

Af-bantuu (Af Ingiriis : Bantu languages, Af Carabi : ar‎) waa farac ka mida afafka loo yaqaan Mayjar-koongo, qiyaasta la sameeyay ayaa ah in 522 farac uu leeyahay afka baantuuga iyagoo waliba si hoose u sii kala qaybsama, afka baantuuga waxaa looga hadlaa si balaaran bariga iyo koofurta kaamiruun, waxaa kaloo aad looga hadlaa afrika dhexe, afrikad koonfureed iyo bariga afrika,

Tirada ugu badan dadka ku hadla afkaan waa sawaaxiliga looga hadlo geeska afrika, dhexda afrika iyo afrikada koonfureed. afka shoona ayaa ku xiga waxaana ku hadla 10.8 milyan, waxaa ku soo xiga afka Zulu 10.3 milyan ayaa ku hadasha.

Afka baantuuga ayaa asal ahaan ka soo jeeda nayjeeriya iyo kaamiruun ka dib wuxuu u faafay bari iyo koonfur. ereyga baantuu ayaa macnihiisu yahay Dad ama bulsho. inkastoo ay luuqad ahaan kala fogtahay hadan ereyada kulmiya ayaa aad u badan waxaa ka mida Mtu ama Mntu oo loola jeedo Qof.

Afafka ugu caansan Baantuuga

Liiskaan soo socda waxaa ku qoran afafka ugu waaweyn afka baanntuuga io xaga badnaanta dadka.

Lingua franca

Swahili (Kiswahili) (350,000; tens of millions as L2)

Angola

South Mbundu (Umbundu) (4 million)
North Mbundu (Kimbundu) (3 million)
Ovambo (Ambo) (Oshiwambo) (500,000)
Luvale (Chiluvale) (500,000)
Chokwe (Chichokwe) (500,000)

Botswana

Tswana (Setswana) (1 million)
Kalanga (Ikalanga) (150,000)

Burundi

Kirundi (8.5 - 10.5 million)

Cameroon

Beti (1.7 million: 900,000 Bulu, 600,000 Ewondo, 120,000 Fang, 60,000 Eton, 30,000 Bebele)
Basaa (230,000)
Duala (350,000)

Central African Republic

Mbati (60,000)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Lingala (Ngala) (2 million; 7 million with L2 speakers)
Luba-Kasai (Tshiluba) (6.5 million)
Kituba (4.5 million), a Bantu creole
Kongo (Kikongo) (3.5 million)
Luba-Katanga (Kiluba) (1.5+ million)
Songe (Lusonge) (1+ million)
Nande (Orundandi) (1 million)
Tetela (Otetela) (800,000)
Yaka (Iyaka) (700,000+)
Shi (700,000)
Yombe (Kiyombe) (670,000)

Equatorial Guinea

Beti (Fang) (300,000)
Bube (40,000)

Gabon

Kenya

Swahili and English are national languages

Gikuyu (7 million)
Luhya (5.4 million)
Kamba (4 million)
Meru (Kimeru) (2.7 million)
Gusii (2 million)

Lesotho

Sotho (Sesotho) (1.8 million)
Zulu (Isizulu) (300,000)

Malawi

Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (7 million)
Tumbuka (1 million)
Yao (1 million)

Mozambique

Makhuwa (3 million; 5.5 million all Makua)
Tsonga (Xitsonga) (1.7 million)
Shona (Ndau) (1.6 million)
Lomwe (1.5 million)
Sena (1.3 million)
Tswa (1.2 million)
Chuwabu (1.0 million)
Chopi (800,000)
Ronga (700,000)
Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (600,000)
Yao (Chiyao) (500,000)
Nyungwe (Cinyungwe/Nhungue)(400,000)
Tonga (400,000)
Makonde (400,000)

Nigeria

Batiu (300,000: Efiat, 600,000 Efut Ibonda, 900,000 Ejagham,1,900,000, 60,000 Ikoneto, 900,000
Ibibio 50,000,230,000)
Efik (30,000,350,000)
Tiv (13,200,000)

Namibia

Ovambo (Ambo, Oshiwambo) (1 500,000)
Herero (200,000)

Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)

Kituba (1.2+ million) [a Bantu creole]
Kongo (Kikongo) (1.0 million)
Teke languages (500,000)
Yombe (350,000)
Suundi (120,000)
Mbosi (110,000)
Lingala (100,000; ? L2 speakers)

Rwanda

Kinyarwanda (Kinyarwanda) (10 - 12 million)

South Africa

Zulu (Isizulu) (10 million)
Xhosa (Isixhosa) (8 million)
Sotho (Sesotho) (4 million)
Pedi (Sepedi) (4 million)
Tswana (Setswana) (3.5 million)
Tsonga (Xitsonga) (2 million)
Swazi (Siswati) (1 million)
Venda (Tshivenda) (1 million)
Ndebele (Isindebele)

Swaziland

Swazi (Siswati) (1 million)

Tanzania

Swahili is the national language

Sukuma (5.5 million)
Gogo (1.5 million)
Haya (Kihaya) (1.3 million)
Chaga (Kichaga) (1.2+ million : 600,000 Mochi, 300,000+ Machame, 300,000+ Vunjo)
Nyamwezi (1.0 million)
Makonde (1.0 million)
Ha (1.0 million)
Nyakyusa (800,000)
Hehe (800,000)
Luguru (700,000)
Bena (600,000)
Shambala (650,000)
Nyaturu (600,000)

Uganda

Ganda (Luganda) (7.5 million)
Nkore-Kiga (3.5 million : 2.3 million Nyankore, 1.2 million Kiga (Chiga))
Soga (Lusoga) (2 million)
Masaba (Lumasaba) (1.1 million)
Nyoro-Tooro (1.1 million)
Kinyarwanda (Kinyarwanda) (750,000)
Konjo (600,000)
Gwere (400,000)

Zambia

Bemba (3.3 million)
Tonga (1.0 million)
Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (800,000)
Lozi (Silozi) (600,000)
Lala-Bisa (600,000)
Nsenga (550,000)
Tumbuka (Chitumbuka) (500,000)
Lunda (450,000)
Nyiha (400,000+)
Mambwe-Lungu (400,000)

Zimbabwe

Shona languages (15.4 million incl. Karanga, Zezuru, Korekore, Ndau, Manyika)
Ndebele (2 million)
Tonga
Venda
Kalanga

Liiskaan ma dhamaystirna, isku day lagu sameeyay in la kulmiyo luuqadaha baantuuga waxaa laga helay gudaha The Bantu Languages of Africa, 1959 .^[1]

Eeriyada afka oo juqraafi ah

Localization of the Niger–Congo languages

Ereyo Baantuu ah oo galbeedka laga adeegsado

Qaar ka mida ereyada baantuuga ayaa amaah ahaaan looga adeegsada wadama reer galbeedka waxaana ka mida :

Bomba

Bongos
Bwana
Candombe
Chimpanzee
Conga
Goobers
Gumbo
Hakuna matata
Impala
Indaba
Jenga
Jumbo
Kalimba
Kwanzaa
Mamba
Mambo
Mbira
Marimba
Rumba
Safari
Samba
Simba
Ubuntu

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Qaab qoraalka

Sida badan waxaa loo qoraa afafka baantuuga qaabka laatiinka iyo qaabka carabiga, qaar kaloo waxaa jira adeegsada qaabab u gaar asii aan badanayn.

Along with the Latin script and Arabic script orthographies, there are also some modern indigenous writing systems used for Bantu languages:^[3]

Tixraac

↑ Bryan, M.A. (compiled by), The Bantu Languages of Africa. Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1959.
↑ Vass, Winifred Kellersberger (1979). Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California. p. 73 http://books.google.com/books?id=Sbp1AAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Here+we. Soo qaatay 7 September 2014. “Here we go looby-loo; here we go looby-la (or looby-light) / Here we go looby-loo; all on a Saturday night!” Both of these Luba words, lubilu (quickly, in a hurry), and lubila (a shout) are words still in common usage in the Republic of Zaïre. Maqan ama ebar |title= (caawin)
↑ . Design Miami http://miami2015.designmiami.com/design-galleries/view/southern-guild4. Soo qaatay 2015-11-23. Maqan ama ebar |title= (caawin)

Xiriiriye dibadeed

Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary – includes a comprehensive bibliography.
Maho 2009 Archived Febraayo 3, 2018 // Wayback Machine. Guthrie 1948 in detail, with subsequent corrections and corresponding ISO codes
Bantu online resources by Jacky Maniacky, including
- List of Bantu noun classes with reconstructed Proto-Bantu prefixes (in French)
Ehret's compilation of classifications by Klieman, Bastin, himself, and others Archived Juun 24, 2012 // Wayback Machine
Contini-Morava, Ellen. Noun Classification in Swahili Archived Oktoobar 26, 2020 // Wayback Machine. 1994.
List of Bantu language names with synonyms ordered by Guthrie number.
Introduction to the languages of South Africa
Journal of West African Languages: Narrow Bantu Archived Luuliyo ama Luulyo 26, 2011 // Wayback Machine
Bantu Languages of Uganda Archived Abriil 1, 2016 // Wayback Machine
The art of the language of Angola, author Father Pedro Dias, published in 1697

Maqaalkan waa la bilaabay. Hadii aad wax ka taqaanid fadlan ka caawi Wikipedia in aad Wax ku dartid. Qoraalkaagu ha noqdo mid faa'iido leh oo dhexdhexaad ah.

[1] Bryan, M.A. (compiled by), The Bantu Languages of Africa. Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1959.

[2] Vass, Winifred Kellersberger (1979). Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California. p. 73 http://books.google.com/books?id=Sbp1AAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Here+we. Soo qaatay 7 September 2014. “Here we go looby-loo; here we go looby-la (or looby-light) / Here we go looby-loo; all on a Saturday night!” Both of these Luba words, lubilu (quickly, in a hurry), and lubila (a shout) are words still in common usage in the Republic of Zaïre. Maqan ama ebar |title= (caawin)

[3] . Design Miami http://miami2015.designmiami.com/design-galleries/view/southern-guild4. Soo qaatay 2015-11-23. Maqan ama ebar |title= (caawin)

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