Home›Australian Language Families›In Group›Bantu Languages›All Bantu LanguagesBrowse ByAll Bantu LanguagesFactsAll Bantu LanguagesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested600 1All Bantu LanguagesFilter Results48 entriesParent Family (Classification Tree)AllAtlantic-Congo (1)Bantu (2)Benue-Congo (1)Botatwe languages (1)Gur (1)Ijoid (1)Mande (1)Niger-Congo (1)RegionAllAngola, chiefly the north-west (1)Cameroon (1)Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon (1)Central reaches of the Congo River and adjacent areas (1)Central, Eastern and Southern Africa (1)Namibia and the Kalahari Desert (1)Southeastern Nigeria and adjacent regions of Cameroon (1)Southern Cameroon and neighbouring areas (1)Southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)Southwest Cameroon and southeast Nigeria (1)Southwestern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon (1)Sub-Saharan Africa (1)Sub-Saharan Africa, not farther west than Nigeria (1)Sub-Saharan Africa, not further west than Nigeria (1)Swahili Coast (1)Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya and the DRC (1)Uganda, Tanzania, the DRC and Rwanda (2)Western Congo and Gabon (1)Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana (1)Speaker Count BandAll3728000.000000 (1)350000000.000000 (1)500000000.000000 (1)Macro-areaAllBantu Languages (48)BrowseCompareSelect all 48Bafia languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBangi-Ntomba languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBantoid languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBantuAfrican Language FamiliesBasaa languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBati-Angba languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBeboid languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBoan languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBoma-Dzing languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBotatwe languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBuja-Ngombe languagesAfrican Language FamiliesBushoong languagesAfrican Language FamiliesChokwe-Luchazi languagesAfrican Language FamiliesEkoid languagesAfrican Language FamiliesGreat Lakes Bantu languagesAfrican Language FamiliesKele languagesAfrican Language FamiliesKhoeAfrican Language FamiliesKilimanjaro-Taita languagesAfrican Language FamiliesKilombero languagesAfrican Language FamiliesKimbundu languagesAfrican Language FamiliesKomo-Bira languagesAfrican Language FamiliesKongo languagesAfrican Language FamiliesKonjo language (Bantu)African Language FamiliesLuban languagesAfrican Language FamiliesMakaa-Njem languagesAfrican Language FamiliesMbam languagesAfrican Language FamiliesMbete languagesAfrican Language FamiliesNgiri languageAfrican Language FamiliesNguniAfrican Language FamiliesNiger-CongoAfrican Language FamiliesNorth Nyanza languagesAfrican Language FamiliesNzebi languagesAfrican Language FamiliesRutara languagesAfrican Language FamiliesSabaki languagesAfrican Language FamiliesSawabantu languagesAfrican Language FamiliesShona languagesAfrican Language FamiliesSira languagesAfrican Language FamiliesSotho-Tswana languagesAfrican Language FamiliesSouthern Bantoid languagesAfrican Language FamiliesSouthern Bantu languagesAfrican Language FamiliesTaita Cushitic languagesAfrican Language FamiliesTeke languagesAfrican Language FamiliesTsogo languagesAfrican Language FamiliesTswa-Ronga languagesAfrican Language FamiliesUpland Bantu languagesAfrican Language FamiliesWest AtlanticAfrican Language FamiliesWest Nyanza languagesAfrican Language FamiliesWestern Lakes Bantu languagesAfrican Language FamiliesSources1. Wikipedia: Bantu LanguagesWikimedia FoundationLead section, first paragraphQuote, Lead section, first paragraphThe Bantu languages are a language family, or a branch of the proposed Niger-Congo language family, containing about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.