Af-Bantu

Af-bantuu (, ) waa farac ka mida afafka loo yaqaan Mayjar-koongo,  qiyaasta la sameeyay ayaa ah in 522 farac uu leeyahay afka baantuuga iyagoo waliba si hoose u sii kala qaybsama, afka baantuuga waxaa looga hadlaa si balaaran bariga iyo koofurta kaamiruun, waxaa kaloo aad looga hadlaa afrika dhexe, afrikad koonfureed iyo bariga afrika, 

Tirada ugu badan dadka ku hadla afkaan waa sawaaxiliga looga hadlo geeska afrika, dhexda afrika iyo afrikada koonfureed. afka shoona ayaa ku xiga waxaana  ku hadla 10.8 milyan, waxaa ku soo xiga afka Zulu 10.3 milyan ayaa ku hadasha.

Afka baantuuga ayaa asal ahaan ka soo jeeda nayjeeriya iyo kaamiruun ka dib wuxuu u faafay bari iyo koonfur.
ereyga baantuu ayaa macnihiisu yahay Dad ama bulsho. inkastoo ay luuqad ahaan kala fogtahay hadan ereyada kulmiya ayaa aad u badan waxaa ka mida Mtu ama Mntu oo loola jeedo Qof.

Afafka ugu caansan Baantuuga
Liiskaan soo socda waxaa ku qoran afafka ugu waaweyn afka baanntuuga io xaga badnaanta dadka.

Lingua franca
Swahili (Kiswahili) (350,000; tens of millions as L2)

Angola
South Mbundu (Umbundu) (4 million)
North Mbundu (Kimbundu) (3 million)
Ovambo (Ambo) (Oshiwambo) (500,000)
Luvale (Chiluvale) (500,000)
Chokwe (Chichokwe) (500,000)

Botswana
Tswana (Setswana) (1 million)
Kalanga (Ikalanga) (150,000)

Burundi
Kirundi (8.5 - 10.5 million)

Cameroon
Beti (1.7 million: 900,000 Bulu, 600,000 Ewondo, 120,000 Fang, 60,000 Eton, 30,000 Bebele)
Basaa (230,000)
Duala (350,000)

Central African Republic
Mbati (60,000)

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lingala (Ngala) (2 million; 7 million with L2 speakers)
Luba-Kasai (Tshiluba) (6.5 million)
Kituba (4.5 million), a Bantu creole
Kongo (Kikongo) (3.5 million)
Luba-Katanga (Kiluba) (1.5+ million)
Songe (Lusonge) (1+ million)
Nande (Orundandi) (1 million)
Tetela (Otetela) (800,000)
Yaka (Iyaka) (700,000+)
Shi (700,000)
Yombe (Kiyombe) (670,000)

Equatorial Guinea
Beti (Fang) (300,000)
Bube (40,000)

Gabon
Baka
Barama
Bekwel
Benga
Bubi
Bwisi
Duma
Fang (500,000)
Kendell
Kanin
Sake
Sangu
Seki
Sighu
Simba
Sira
Northern Teke
Western Teke
Tsaangi
Tsogo
Vili (3,600)
Vumbu
Wandji
Wumbvu
Yangho
Yasa

Kenya
Swahili and English are national languages
Gikuyu (7 million)
Luhya (5.4 million)
Kamba (4 million)
Meru (Kimeru) (2.7 million)
Gusii (2 million)

Lesotho
Sotho (Sesotho) (1.8 million)
Zulu (Isizulu) (300,000)

Malawi
Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (7 million)
Tumbuka (1 million)
Yao (1 million)

Mozambique
Makhuwa (3 million; 5.5 million all Makua)
Tsonga (Xitsonga) (1.7 million)
Shona (Ndau) (1.6 million)
Lomwe (1.5 million)
Sena (1.3 million)
Tswa (1.2 million)
Chuwabu (1.0 million)
Chopi (800,000)
Ronga (700,000)
Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (600,000)
Yao (Chiyao) (500,000)
Nyungwe (Cinyungwe/Nhungue)(400,000)
Tonga (400,000)
Makonde (400,000)

Nigeria
Batiu (300,000: Efiat, 600,000 Efut Ibonda, 900,000 Ejagham,1,900,000, 60,000 Ikoneto, 900,000 
Ibibio 50,000,230,000)
Efik (30,000,350,000)
Tiv (13,200,000)

Namibia
Ovambo (Ambo, Oshiwambo) (1 500,000)
Herero (200,000)

Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
Kituba (1.2+ million) [a Bantu creole]
Kongo (Kikongo) (1.0 million)
Teke languages (500,000)
Yombe (350,000)
Suundi (120,000)
Mbosi (110,000)
Lingala (100,000; ? L2 speakers)

Rwanda
Kinyarwanda (Kinyarwanda) (10 - 12 million)

South Africa
Zulu (Isizulu) (10 million)
Xhosa (Isixhosa) (8 million)
Sotho (Sesotho) (4 million)
Pedi (Sepedi) (4 million)
Tswana (Setswana) (3.5 million)
Tsonga (Xitsonga) (2 million)
Swazi (Siswati) (1 million)
Venda (Tshivenda) (1 million)
Ndebele (Isindebele)

Swaziland
Swazi (Siswati) (1 million)

Tanzania
Swahili is the national language
Sukuma (5.5 million)
Gogo (1.5 million)
Haya (Kihaya) (1.3 million)
Chaga (Kichaga) (1.2+ million : 600,000 Mochi, 300,000+ Machame, 300,000+ Vunjo)
Nyamwezi (1.0 million)
Makonde (1.0 million)
Ha (1.0 million)
Nyakyusa (800,000)
Hehe (800,000)
Luguru (700,000)
Bena (600,000)
Shambala (650,000)
Nyaturu (600,000)

Uganda
Ganda (Luganda) (7.5 million)
Nkore-Kiga (3.5 million : 2.3 million Nyankore, 1.2 million Kiga (Chiga))
Soga (Lusoga) (2 million)
Masaba (Lumasaba) (1.1 million)
Nyoro-Tooro (1.1 million)
Kinyarwanda (Kinyarwanda) (750,000)
Konjo (600,000)
Gwere (400,000)

Zambia
Bemba (3.3 million)
Tonga (1.0 million)
Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (800,000)
Lozi (Silozi) (600,000)
Lala-Bisa (600,000)
Nsenga (550,000)
Tumbuka (Chitumbuka) (500,000)
Lunda (450,000)
Nyiha (400,000+)
Mambwe-Lungu (400,000)

Zimbabwe
Shona languages (15.4 million incl. Karanga, Zezuru, Korekore, Ndau, Manyika)
Ndebele (2 million)
Tonga
Venda
Kalanga

Liiskaan ma dhamaystirna, isku day lagu sameeyay in la kulmiyo luuqadaha baantuuga waxaa laga helay gudaha The Bantu Languages of Africa, 1959 .

Eeriyada afka oo juqraafi ah

Ereyo Baantuu ah oo galbeedka laga adeegsado
Qaar ka mida ereyada baantuuga ayaa amaah ahaaan looga adeegsada wadama reer galbeedka waxaana ka mida : 
 Bomba

Bongos
Bwana
Candombe
Chimpanzee
Conga
Goobers
Gumbo
Hakuna matata
Impala
Indaba
Jenga
Jumbo
Kalimba
Kwanzaa
Mamba
Mambo
Mbira
Marimba
Rumba
Safari
Samba
Simba
Ubuntu

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Qaab qoraalka
Sida badan waxaa loo qoraa afafka baantuuga qaabka laatiinka iyo qaabka carabiga, qaar kaloo waxaa jira adeegsada qaabab u gaar asii aan badanayn.

Along with the Latin script and Arabic script orthographies, there are also some modern indigenous writing systems used for Bantu languages:

Tixraac

Xiriiriye dibadeed
Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary – includes a comprehensive bibliography.
Maho 2009 . Guthrie 1948 in detail, with subsequent corrections and corresponding ISO codes
Bantu online resources by Jacky Maniacky, including
List of Bantu noun classes with reconstructed Proto-Bantu prefixes (in French)
Ehret's compilation of classifications by Klieman, Bastin, himself, and others 
Contini-Morava, Ellen. Noun Classification in Swahili. 1994.
List of Bantu language names with synonyms ordered by Guthrie number.
Introduction to the languages of South Africa
Journal of West African Languages: Narrow Bantu 
 Bantu Languages of Uganda
The art of the language of Angola, author Father Pedro Dias, published in 1697

Gumud
Afafka