Thread:BainTheCool/@comment-173.197.107.8-20160925155700/@comment-29029659-20160925164447

Bantu peoples is used as a general label for the 300–600  ethnic groups in Africa who speak  Bantu languages. [1]  They inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from  Central Africa across the  African Great Lakes region down to  Southern Africa. [1]  Bantu is a major branch of the  Niger-Congo  language family spoken by most populations in Africa. There are about 650 Bantu languages by the criterion of  mutual intelligibility, [2]  though the  distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and  Ethnologue<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;"> counts 535 languages. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">[3]