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Great Lakes Bantu languages

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The Great Lakes Bantu languages, also called Lacustrine Bantu or Bantu zone J, are a group of Bantu languages spoken across East Africa. They were recognized as a distinct group by the Tervuren research team, who added them as an extra zone, zone J, to Malcolm Guthrie's largely geographic classification of the Bantu languages.

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Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya and the DRC 1
Proto-Language Status
Proto-Great Lakes Bantu 1
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The Great Lakes Bantu languages, also known as Lacustrine Bantu and Bantu zone J, are a group of Bantu languages of East Africa.
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1. Great Lakes Bantu languages - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, region
    Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya and the DRC
  • Infobox, protoname
    Proto-Great Lakes Bantu
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