bantoid language

Noun
  1. A family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent (synset 107004640)
    is a type of: niger-congo - a family of African language spoken in west Africa
    subtypes:
    • chichewa - the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa
    • chimwini - a Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia
    • chishona - a Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe
    • fang - a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
    • gikuyu - a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya
    • giriama - a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya
    • herero - a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola
    • kamba - a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba in Kenya
    • chaga, chagga, kichaga - a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania
    • kinyarwanda - a Bantu language
    • kiswahili - a Bantu language
    • kongo - the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola
    • luba, tshiluba - a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo
    • luganda - the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda
    • luyia - a Bantu language
    • mashi - a Bantu language
    • mwera - a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania
    • nguni - a group of southern Bantu languages
    • nyamwezi - a Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania
    • pokomo - a Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa
    • shona - a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe
    • sotho - any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
    • umbundu - a Bantu language spoken in Angola
    • swahili - the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
    • tonga - the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)
    same as: bantu

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