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
*
*Candombe
*Chimpanzee
*Conga
*Goobers
*Gumbo
*Hakuna matata
*Impala
*Indaba
*Jenga
*Jumbo
*Kalimba
*Kwanzaa
*Mamba
*
*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. *[http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/swahili/ 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