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  1. Bantu peoples - Wikipedia

    The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to countries spread over a vast area …

  2. Bantu peoples | African, Migration & Expansion | Britannica

    Dec 11, 2025 · Bantu peoples, the approximately 85 million speakers of the more than 500 distinct languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family, occupying almost the entire …

  3. Bantu - New World Encyclopedia

    Bantu is a general term for over 400 different ethnic groups in Africa, from Cameroon, Southern Africa, Central Africa, to Eastern Africa, united by a common language family (the Bantu languages) and in …

  4. The Bantu People of Africa, a story - African American Registry

    They are Black African speakers of the Bantu languages, which several hundred indigenous ethnic groups speak. The Bantu live in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa …

  5. Who are the Bantu Africans? - Let Africa Speak

    Oct 29, 2024 · Welcome to the world of Bantu-speaking Africans—over 400 unique ethnic groups, speaking a stunning array of languages and living across Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa. To …

  6. The Bantu Migrations and How They Shaped Africa

    Aug 12, 2025 · The Bantu were a group of people who spoke related languages belonging to the Bantu language family, a branch of the larger Niger-Congo language group. Around 3,000 years ago, they …

  7. The Bantu Migration: The Spread of Language and Culture Across Africa

    Jul 4, 2025 · The Bantu Migration represents one of the most significant episodes in African history, marking a widespread movement of people, languages, and cultural practices from a region near …

  8. History of the Bantu peoples

    The Bantu peoples comprise over 500 different ethnic groups who speak related languages belonging to the Bantu language family. These peoples inhabit vast areas of Africa south of the equator, from …

  9. The Bantu Migration | World History - Lumen Learning

    The Bantu expansion is the name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group. The primary evidence for this expansion has been linguistic, …

  10. Bantu expansion - Wikipedia

    Many Batwa groups speak Bantu languages; however, a considerable portion of their vocabulary is not Bantu in origin. Much of this vocabulary is botanical, deals with honey collecting, or is otherwise …