Bantu - a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continentNiger-Congo - a family of African language spoken in west Africa Chichewa - the Bantu language of the Chewa people 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 Kamba - a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya Kongo - the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola Tshiluba, Luba - a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo LuGanda - the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda 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 Sotho - any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho people 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 Tonga people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia) |