The Bantu branch of Niger-Congo. Belongs here: Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Shona, Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana. Does not belong here: a non-Bantu Niger-Congo language such as Yoruba or Wolof, grouped under Other Niger-Congo Languages.
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1. Wikipedia: Bantu Languages
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The total number of Bantu speakers is estimated to be around 350 million in 2015 (roughly 30% of the population of Africa or 5% of the world population).
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