Southern Bantu languages

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Southern Bantu
Geographic
distribution
Southern Bantoid
Proto-languageProto-Southern Bantu
Glottologsout3387

The Southern Bantu languages are a large group of

Makhuwa. They include all of the major Bantu languages of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique, with outliers such as Lozi in Zambia and Namibia, and Ngoni in Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi
.

Languages

Language groups are followed by their code in the Guthrie classification.

References

  1. ^ Tore Janson (1991-92) "Southern Bantu and Makua", Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika (SUGIA) Vol. 12/13: 63-106, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Cologne [1]