are bantu semetic
Kiswahili-Bantu, HATUA, step, pace in walking, a time, period of time, moment, point of time, space. The next Kiswahili-Bantu word I would like to examine is the word hatua, a noun and is said to be derived from the Semitic Arabic word khtwa(t).t is the author s contention, from the linguistic contents, that speakers of Proto-Bantu played an active part at the time of the expansion of Proto-Afro-Asiatic speakers in the Rift Valley of East Africa.