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	Narrow Bantu languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the classification of African languages, Narrow Bantu is a term commonly used to designate the branch of Niger-Congo containing the numerous Bantu languages as recognized by Guthrie (1948) in his seminal classification of the Bantu languages.
		The term 'Narrow Bantu' was coined by the Benue-Congo Working Group to distinguish the group from other Bantu-like languages not recognized as such by Guthrie (1948).
		Guthrie, Malcolm (1948) The classification of the Bantu languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Narrow_Bantu (176 words)

	Bantu [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Bantu refer to over 400 different ethnic groups in Africa, from Cameroon to South Africa, united by a common language family, the Bantu languages Bantu is a language family that belongs to the Niger-Congo group.
		Bantu languages are spoken in South Cameroon, and in the south-eastern region of Nigeria close the Cameroonian Border, in Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.
		The Bantu languages are very closely related considering the vast territory they cover, leading historians to believe the Bantu came to dominate sub-equatorial Africa relatively recently and quickly.
	www.wikimirror.com /Bantu (5644 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Xhosa Language Profile
		It is also spoken as a dominant language in several districts away from the main Xhosa region: in Petrusburg near Bloemfontein, and in the mining districts of Oberholzer and Westonaria, southwest of Johannesburg.
		For the most part the Southeastern Bantu languages are spoken within the Republic of South Africa; Tswana is predominantly spoken in Botswana and in the "homeland" of Bophuthatswana; Inhambane languages are found in southern Mozambique.
		As a Bantu language, Xhosa is related to a large number of languages spoken throughout much of Eastern, Southern, and Central Africa from South Africa to Cameroon in the west and Kenya in the east.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /profiles/profx01.htm (1154 words)

	Cameroon Ethnologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Northwest, A, Basaa (A.40).
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Northwest, A, Lundu-Balong (A.10), Ngoe.
		Batanga is distinct from Batanga (Banoho) of Bantu A.30, and the Batanga dialect of Caka; Bakoko is distinct from Bakoko of Bantu A.40.
	www.cabtal.org /cameroon_ethnologue.htm (11020 words)

	Mambila Fricative Vowels
		His is the only study of these languages to provide instrumental evidence of the friction discussed (which didn't occur in all of the dialects looked at), with spectrograms showing clearly that this friction may occur throughout the duration of the nuclear portion of the syllable.
		Mambila comprises a cluster of dialects or languages straddling the Nigeria-Cameroon border.
		In looking at the first degree (`superclose') vowels of many Bantu languages, and their spirantizing effect on preceding consonants, Zoll proposes that these vowels be defined as [+consonantal], in order to distinguish them from high vowels and capture their influence on preceding consonants.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /VIMS/ACAL28/ACAL28paper.html (3725 words)

	Zulu language - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Zulu is the most spoken language in South Africa and became one of South Africa's 11 official languages at the end of apartheid.
		Zulu is an agglutinative language which is part of the Nguni subfamily of the Bantu family of languages.
		The known history of the language is limited, but evidence of the language exists from the sixteenth century.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Zulu_language (316 words)

	Bantoid languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the classification of African languages, Bantoid is a branch of the Benue-Congo subfamily of the Niger-Congo phylum.
		Greenberg in his influential 1963 The Languages of Africa defined Bantoid as the group to which (Narrow) Bantu belongs together with its closest relatives; this is the sense in which the term is still used today.
		In this proposal, the Mambiloid and Dakoid languages are grouped together as North Bantoid, while everything else Bantoid is subsumed under South Bantoid; the Ethnologue uses this classification.
	vb.game-host.org /en/Bantoid_languages.htm (209 words)

	Ethnologue: Tanzania
		Mambwe is southwest of Lake Rukwa; Lungu is on the southeast shore.
		Derivational morphemes are Bantu and Cushitic (or non-Bantu).
		Rural people are second language users; they use the local language for most activities, but Swahili with outsiders.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Tanz.html (5314 words)

	CBOLD NSF proposal excerpts 1994-1997
		The PB reconstructions pertain to what is known as "Narrow Bantu", with most of the well-known daughter languages belonging to the Kongo branch--only one of the eight Bantu subgroups proposed by Heine et al (1977).
		The 50+ languages that will be initially inputted will include languages from all parts of the Bantu zone, with special care taken that representative languages from within Guthrie's (1967/71) zones A, B and C (so-called "Northwest Bantu") are included.
		The PI has published overviews and detailed descriptions of the verb stem morphology of different Bantu languages which identify the richness of the data as well as the theoretical and historical significance of this line of research (Hyman 1993; Hyman 1991; Hyman and Katamba 1991; Hyman and Mchombo 1992).
	www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr /Docs/NSF94-97.html (7429 words)

	Meningar.com om bantu. bantu, from, Notes mm.
		The typical Bantu structure of the language plus its extensive stock of vocabulary that is Bantu in origin, demonstrate that although Swahili has borrowed a large number of Arabic words, it remains a distinctly African language...
		The mfecane, which means "crushing" in Bantu languages, began with the migrations of the northern Nguni, but was commonly associated with the military and socio-political activities of Shaka...
		Swahili has never enjoyed high status among the major Christian oriented Bantu ethnolinguistic groups of southern and western Uganda, but was an important lingua franca in the northern areas of the country and has always been an important language among..
	www.meningar.com /bantu.html (1185 words)

	Impressions of Angola
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, H, Mbundu (H.20).
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, H, Kongo (H.10).
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, H, Yaka (H.30).
	groups.msn.com /impressionsofangola/languages.msnw (1278 words)

	African Languages by Countries
		Native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population.
		Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread).
		Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/african_languages.htm (560 words)

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		PORTUGUESE [POR] 30,000 in Mozambique (1993 Johnstone), 27% speak it as second language (1980 census); 170,000,000 in all countries (1995 WA).
		Ndau is the church language in Beira; Shona and Nyanja are used in Tâte.
		All are recognized as languages, although they are inherently intelligible.
	web.tiscali.it /lippa/mozambico/etnic.htm (1796 words)

	Zimbabwe: Languages
		Of those, 19 are living languages and 1 is a second language with no mother tongue speakers.
		Shona is the dominant African language of Zimbabwe and is understood by a considerable number.
		The sign language used in schools and that used by adults outside is different.
	www.servus.at /argezim/languages.htm (1131 words)

	Bantuic languages - Resource Database zone 99, Linguasphere.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This phylozone covers the "broad Bantu" and "narrow Bantu+ Bantoid" or Isizulu+ Tiv set of languages within the "Volta-Congo" affinity, within the wider "Transafrican" continental affinity, spoken throughout a major part of Africa, from the Jos Plateau and Camaroon Highlands eastwards and southwards to the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic coasts.
		Original contributions on all aspects of African language studies are welcomed, synchronic as well as diachronic, theoretical as well as data-oriented.
		The main aim of the Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa is to document the popular culture expressed in, and mediated by, popular, vernacular, varieties of African languages.
	www.linguasphere.org /database10.html (1600 words)

	Ethnologue report for Angola
		The number of languages listed for Angola is 42.
		Of those, 41 are living languages and 1 is extinct.
		Classification: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, H, Kongo (H.10)
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Angola (874 words)

	Cameroon Cameroun Travel Tourism Economy Business Culture Football Government Douala Yaounde Bamenda CMclick ...
		Information mainly from SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) 1996 and Atlas Linguistique du Cameroun 1983.
		BEBE (YI BE WU) [ BZV ] West of Nkambe and north of Ring Road, west part of Ako Subdivision, Donga-Mangung Division, North West Province.
		BUM (BOM) [ BMV ] Northern part of Fundong Subdivision, mainly in the villages of Su-Bum and Laa-Bum, Menchum Division, North West Province.
	www.cmclick.com /index.php?link=1 (8381 words)

	narrow_bantu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ethnologue, Languages of the World, SIL, Summer Institute of Linguistics List of languages of Narrow Bantu.
		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Northwest, B, Sira (B.40).
		Bantu languagesandquot; There are 48 articles in this category.
	narrow_bantu.networklive.org (212 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Xhosa Citations Xhosa Links Select a New Language
		Bright, W. "Narrow Bantu 'S'" in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=21 (1208 words)

	makabila_tz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ENGLISH [ENG] Second language speakers in Tanzania: 1,500,000 (1977 Voegelin and Voegelin); 322,000,000 in all countries (1995 WA).
		NGHWELE (KINGHWELE, NGWELE) [NHE] Coast north of the Doe, east and south of the Zigula.
		WARE [WRE] Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, E, Kuria (E.10).
	fizzylogic.com /wasukuma/makabila_tz.html (5034 words)

	MavicaNET - Mongo Dialects or Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Stats: links: 381518, categories: 31623, languages supported: 30
		Katalog / Kultur / Språk / Language Families of Subsaharan Africa / Benue-Kongo / Bantoid / Bantu (Narrow Bantu) / Mongo Dialects or Languages
		MONGO-NKUNDU: a language of Democratic Republic of Congo
	www.mavicanet.ru /lite/swe/16666.html (57 words)

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