Faster access than browser!
68 relations: Atlantic–Congo languages, Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Burundi, Fuliiru language, Gungu language, Gusii language, Guthrie classification of Bantu languages, Gwere language, Ha language, Hangaza language, Havu language, Haya language, Hema language, Hunde language, Idaxo-Isuxa-Tiriki language, Ikizu language, Ikoma language, Jita language, Kabwa language, Kabwari language, Kara language (Tanzania), Kerewe language, Khayo language, Kiga language, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kitara language, Konjo language (Bantu), Kuria language, Kwaya language, Lake Victoria, Logooli language, Luganda, Luhya language, Marachi language, Masaba language, Nande language, Ngoreme language, Nkore language, Nkore-Kiga language, Northeast Bantu languages, Nyambo language, Nyole language (Kenya), Nyole language (Uganda), Nyoro language, Ruuli language, Rwanda, Rwanda-Rundi, Samia language, ..., Shi language, Shubi language, Singa language, Soga language, Southern Bantoid languages, Suba language, Suba-Simbiti language, Sumbwa language, Talinga language, Tembo (Kitembo) language, Tooro language, Uganda, Vinza language, Ware language, West Nyala language, Yaka language (Kivu), Zanaki language, Zinza language. Expand index (18 more) »
Atlantic–Congo languages
The Atlantic–Congo languages are a major division constituting the core of the Niger–Congo language family of Africa, characterised by the noun class systems typical of the family.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Atlantic–Congo languages · See more »
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: */baⁿtʊ̀/) technically the Narrow Bantu languages, as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other "Bantoid" languages are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Bantu languages · See more »
Benue–Congo languages
Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major subdivision of the Niger–Congo language family which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Benue–Congo languages · See more »
Burundi
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi (Republika y'Uburundi,; République du Burundi, or), is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Burundi · See more »
Fuliiru language
Fuliiru (Furiiru, Kifuliiru, Fulero) is a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by the Fuliiru people (Bafuliiru), also known as the Fuliru or Fulero, who live north and west of the town of Uvira in Uvira Territory, South Kivu province in the far eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Fuliiru language · See more »
Gungu language
Gungu is a Bantu language of Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Gungu language · See more »
Gusii language
The Gusii language (also known as Kisii or Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in the Kisii district in western Kenya, whose headquarters is Kisii town, (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania).
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Gusii language · See more »
Guthrie classification of Bantu languages
The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie (1967–1971).
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Guthrie classification of Bantu languages · See more »
Gwere language
Gwere, or Lugwere, is the language spoken by the Gwere people (Bagwere), a Bantu people found in the eastern part of Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Gwere language · See more »
Ha language
Ha, also known with the Bantu language prefix as Giha, Ikiha, or Kiha, is a Bantu language spoken by the Ha people of the Kigoma Region of Tanzania, spoken on the eastern side of Lake Tanganyika up to the headwaters of the Mikonga.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Ha language · See more »
Hangaza language
Hangaza is a Bantu language spoken by the Hangaza people of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Hangaza language · See more »
Havu language
Havu or Haavu is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Havu language · See more »
Haya language
Haya (Oluhaya; Swahili: Kihaya) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Haya people of Tanzania, in the south and southwest coast of Lake Victoria.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Haya language · See more »
Hema language
Hema is a Bantu language and one of three languages spoken by the Hema people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Hema language · See more »
Hunde language
Hunde (Kihunde; also Kobi, Rukobi) is a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken by the Hunde people in Nord-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Hunde language · See more »
Idaxo-Isuxa-Tiriki language
Idakho, Isukha, and Tirikhi (Luidakho, Luisukha, Lutirichi) are mutually intelligible Kenyan languages within the Luhya ethnic group.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Idaxo-Isuxa-Tiriki language · See more »
Ikizu language
Ikizu (Ikikizu, Kiikiizo) is a Bantu language spoken by the Ikizu peoples of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Ikizu language · See more »
Ikoma language
Ikoma, Nata, and Isenye are the ethnic names for a Bantu language of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Ikoma language · See more »
Jita language
Jita is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Jita language · See more »
Kabwa language
Kabwa (Ekikabwa) is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kabwa language · See more »
Kabwari language
Bwari, or Kabwari, is a minor Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kabwari language · See more »
Kara language (Tanzania)
Kara, or Regi, is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken off Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kara language (Tanzania) · See more »
Kerewe language
Kerewe, or Kerebe, is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken on Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria, the largest inland island in Africa.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kerewe language · See more »
Khayo language
Khayo (Xaayo) is a Bantu language spoken by the Luhya people of Kenya.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Khayo language · See more »
Kiga language
Kiga (also called Rukiga, Ruchiga, or Chiga) is the native language of the Kiga people (Bakiga).
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kiga language · See more »
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda; known as Igifumbira in Uganda) is an official language of Rwanda and a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language spoken by 12 million people in Rwanda, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjacent parts of southern Uganda. (The Kirundi dialect is the official language of neighbouring Burundi.) Kinyarwanda is one of the four official languages of Rwanda (along with English, French and Kiswahili) and is spoken by almost all of the native population. That contrasts with most modern African states, whose borders were drawn by colonial powers and do not correspond to ethnic boundaries or precolonial kingdoms.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kinyarwanda · See more »
Kirundi
Kirundi, also known as Rundi, is a Bantu language spoken by 9 million people in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as in Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kirundi · See more »
Kitara language
The Kitara language, commonly known as Runyakitara, is an artificial standard language based on four closely related languages of western Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kitara language · See more »
Konjo language (Bantu)
The Konjo (Konzo) language, variously rendered Rukonjo, Olukonjo, Olukonzo and Lhukonzo, is a Bantu language spoken by the Konjo people of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Konjo language (Bantu) · See more »
Kuria language
Kuria is spoken by the Kuria peoples of Northern Tanzania, with some speakers also residing in Kenya.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kuria language · See more »
Kwaya language
Kwaya is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Kwaya language · See more »
Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; Nalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Lake Victoria · See more »
Logooli language
Logoli (Logooli) is a Bantu language with several hundred thousand speakers in Kenya and a few hundred speakers in Mara Region, Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Logooli language · See more »
Luganda
Luganda, or Ganda (Oluganda), is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than five million Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, including the capital Kampala of Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Luganda · See more »
Luhya language
Luhya (also Luyia, Luhia or Luhiya) is a Bantu language of western Kenya.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Luhya language · See more »
Marachi language
Marachi is a Bantu language spoken by the Luhya people of Kenya.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Marachi language · See more »
Masaba language
Masaba (Lumasaaba), sometimes known as Gisu (Lugisu) after one of its dialects, is a Bantu language spoken by more than two million people in East Africa.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Masaba language · See more »
Nande language
Nande, also known as (Oru)Ndandi and Yira, is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Nande language · See more »
Ngoreme language
Ngurimi (Ngoreme) is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Ngoreme language · See more »
Nkore language
Nkore (also called Nkole, Nyankore, Nyankole, Orunyankore, Orunyankole, Runyankore and Runyankole) is a Bantu language spoken by the Nkore ("Banyankore") and Hima peoples of south-western Uganda in the former province of Ankole.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Nkore language · See more »
Nkore-Kiga language
Nkore-Kiga is a language spoken by around 3,910,000 people living in the extreme southwest of Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Nkore-Kiga language · See more »
Northeast Bantu languages
The Northeast Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in East Africa.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Northeast Bantu languages · See more »
Nyambo language
The Nyambo, or Ragwe, are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Karagwe District of Kagera Region in far northwestern Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Nyambo language · See more »
Nyole language (Kenya)
Nyole (also Olunyole, Lunyole, Lunyore, Nyoole, Nyore, Olunyore) is a Bantu language spoken by the Luhya people in Vihiga District, Kenya.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Nyole language (Kenya) · See more »
Nyole language (Uganda)
Nyole (also LoNyole, Lunyole, Nyuli) is a Bantu language spoken by the Luhya people in Tororo District, Uganda near Lake Kyoga.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Nyole language (Uganda) · See more »
Nyoro language
The Nyoro language (autonym: Runyoro) is a local language of the Nyoro people of Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Nyoro language · See more »
Ruuli language
Ruli (Ruuli) is the Bantu language spoken by the Ruli and Nyara people (Baruli and Banyara) of Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Ruuli language · See more »
Rwanda
Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Rwanda · See more »
Rwanda-Rundi
Rwanda-Rundi (Ruanda-Rundi) is a group of Bantu languages, specifically a dialect continuum, spoken in Central Africa.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Rwanda-Rundi · See more »
Samia language
Samia (Saamia) is a Bantu language spoken by the Luhya people of Uganda and Kenya.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Samia language · See more »
Shi language
Shi, or Nyabungu, is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Shi language · See more »
Shubi language
Shubi (Subi) is a Bantu language spoken in by the Shubi people in north-western Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Shubi language · See more »
Singa language
Singa is an extinct Bantu language of Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Singa language · See more »
Soga language
Soga, or Lusoga, is a Bantu language spoken in Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Soga language · See more »
Southern Bantoid languages
Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid), also known as Wide Bantu or Bin, is a branch of the Benue–Congo languages of the Niger–Congo language family.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Southern Bantoid languages · See more »
Suba language
Suba, also known as Olusuba, is a Bantu language spoken by the Suba people of Kenya.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Suba language · See more »
Suba-Simbiti language
Suba-Simbiti (Kisuba, Kisimbiti) is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Suba-Simbiti language · See more »
Sumbwa language
Sumbwa (or Sisumbwa/Lusumbwa) is an Eastern Bantu language, classified as F.23 by Malcolm Guthrie (1948).
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Sumbwa language · See more »
Talinga language
Talinga or Bwisi is a language spoken in the Uganda–Congo border region.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Talinga language · See more »
Tembo (Kitembo) language
Tembo is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Tembo (Kitembo) language · See more »
Tooro language
Tooro, or Rutooro, is a Bantu language spoken mainly by the Toro people (Batooro) from the Toro Kingdom region of western Uganda.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Tooro language · See more »
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Uganda · See more »
Vinza language
Vinza is a Bantu language spoken by the Vinza people of Tanzania, approximately in the area of the town of Uvinza.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Vinza language · See more »
Ware language
Ware is an extinct Bantu language near Lake Victoria in East Africa.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Ware language · See more »
West Nyala language
West Nyala (Nyala B) is a Bantu language of western Kenya, on the shores of Lake Victoria.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and West Nyala language · See more »
Yaka language (Kivu)
Yaka is a minor Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the north shore of Lake Kivu.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Yaka language (Kivu) · See more »
Zanaki language
Zanaki (Ikizanaki) is a Bantu language of Tanzania.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Zanaki language · See more »
Zinza language
Zinza (Dzinda) is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken on the southern shore of Lake Victoria.
New!!: Great Lakes Bantu languages and Zinza language · See more »
Redirects here:
Bantu Zone J, Great Lakes Bantu, Great Lakes Bantu language, Haya-Jita languages, Haya–Jita languages, Konzo languages, Lacustrine Bantu, Lacustrine Bantu languages, Logooli-Kuria languages, Logooli–Kuria languages, Luhya languages, Luyia languages, Masaba-Luhya languages, Masaba–Luhya languages, Nyoro-Ganda languages, Nyoro–Ganda languages, Shi-Havu languages, Shi–Havu languages, Zone J.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Bantu_languages
