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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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  6. Bantu Expansion | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

    The Bantu Expansion stands for the concurrent dispersal of Bantu languages and Bantu-speaking people from an ancestral homeland situated in the Grassfields region in the borderland …

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

    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 …

  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 …

  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 …

  10. Bantu expansion - Wikipedia

    The Bantu expansion[3][4][5] was a major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu -speaking group, [6][7] which spread from an original nucleus around West - Central Africa …