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The 39 pages that link to Bantu languages, each with the reason it gives.

• Language familyBroader topic: Their expansion provides evidence for studying population movements and language spread.

• Bantu expansionNarrower topic: Their geographic distribution preserves the expansion's broad linguistic footprint.

• Swahili languageNarrower topic: Swahili belongs to this family and shares its core grammatical structure.

• Niger–Congo languagesBroader topic: Bantu is the family’s most widespread and internally extensive major branch.

• Noun classNarrower topic: Many Bantu languages have extensive noun-class inventories with agreement across phrases and clauses.

• Bantu peoplesBroader topic: Shared language ancestry is the basis for grouping these distinct peoples as Bantu.

• Nguni languagesNarrower topic: Nguni languages belong to this broader branch of African languages.

• Khoisan languagesCompared with: Unlike Khoisan, Bantu is a recognized branch within a larger family supported by comparative evidence.

• Proto-Bantu languageBroader topic: These descendant languages supply the comparative evidence for reconstructing Proto-Bantu.

• Evolution of languagesBroader topic: Their expansion illustrates how population movement can accompany language diversification.

• UbuntuNarrower topic: The word ubuntu belongs to the broader linguistic family associated with related terms for humanity.

• Cushitic languagesCompared with: Bantu expansion brought languages into contact with Cushitic communities in eastern Africa.

• KinyarwandaNarrower topic: Kinyarwanda belongs to this family and shares its characteristic grammatical patterns.

• LingalaNarrower topic: Lingala belongs to this family and shares its noun-class system.

• Kongo peopleNarrower topic: Kikongo belongs to this language family, which links Kongo history to wider migrations and exchanges.

• Xhosa languageNarrower topic: Xhosa is part of the Bantu language family.

• Great Lakes Bantu languagesNarrower topic: Great Lakes languages belong to this broader family and share its inherited grammatical patterns.

• KirundiNarrower topic: Kirundi belongs to this branch and shares its characteristic grammatical features.

• Shona languageNarrower topic: Shona belongs to this branch and shares its characteristic grammatical patterns.

• ZuluNarrower topic: Zulu is one member of this broad language family.

• LugandaNarrower topic: Luganda belongs to this language branch and shares many of its structural features.

• Nilotic languagesCompared with: Bantu languages neighbor Nilotic languages geographically but belong to a different established family.

• Herero languageNarrower topic: Herero belongs to this group and shares its characteristic noun-class system.

• MaseruRelated: Sesotho, Lesotho’s national language, is a Bantu language widely spoken in Maseru.

• Northern Ndebele languageNarrower topic: Its noun classes and agreement patterns come from the wider Bantu family.

• Tsonga languageNarrower topic: Tsonga belongs to this family, whose shared features include noun classes and agreement.

• Kikuyu languageNarrower topic: Kikuyu belongs to this branch and shares its broad linguistic ancestry.

• Kongo languageNarrower topic: Kongo belongs to this branch, whose shared grammatical features help locate it among African languages.

• Sotho languageNarrower topic: Sesotho belongs to this branch and shares its characteristic noun-class system.

• Southern NdebeleNarrower topic: Its noun classes and related vocabulary reflect Southern Ndebele’s place in this family.

• Tswana languageNarrower topic: Tswana belongs to this branch and shares its characteristic noun-class system.

• Venda languageNarrower topic: Venda belongs to this family and shares its broad grammatical patterns.

• Chewa languageNarrower topic: Chewa belongs to this branch and shares its characteristic noun-class system.

• Luba-KatangaNarrower topic: Luba-Katanga belongs to this branch and shares its characteristic grammatical patterns.

• MalagasyRelated: Contact with Bantu languages contributed African influences to Malagasy vocabulary and history.

• Ovambo languageNarrower topic: Ovambo varieties belong to this family and share its broad linguistic ancestry.

• Rwanda-RundiNarrower topic: Rwanda-Rundi belongs to this broader language branch.

• Sukuma languageNarrower topic: Sukuma belongs to this broad language branch.

• Swazi languageNarrower topic: SiSwati’s noun classes and agreement patterns reflect its Bantu inheritance.