Bantu in a sentence

Northwest Bantu is more divergent internally than Central Bantu, and perhaps less conservative due to contact with non-Bantu Niger–Congo languages; Central Bantu is likely the innovative line cladistically.

The Bantu languages also have "mirror" tone systems in which the languages in the northwest corner of the Bantu area have the opposite tones of other Bantu languages.

While Bantu were struggling to get a goal things turned worse for them on the 28 minute when Matlama doubled the lead through Phafa Ts’osane after Bantu defenders failed to clear his effort in the box.

In 1931 he was appointed to the Chair of Bantu Studies and thus headed the Department of Bantu Studies.

Likewise, the Africanist Karl Richard Lepsius considered Bantu to be of African origin, and many 'Mixed Negro languages' as products of an encounter between Bantu and intruding Asiatic languages.

Northwest Bantu is clearly not a coherent family, but even for Central Bantu the evidence is lexical, with little evidence that it is a historically valid group.

Semantic motivation The ki-/vi- class historically consisted of two separate genders, artefacts (Bantu class 7/8, utensils and hand tools mostly) and diminutives (Bantu class 12), which were conflated at a stage ancestral to Swahili.

Some authors saw the latter as languages which had not yet completely evolved to full Bantu status, whereas others regarded them as languages which had partly lost original features still found in Bantu.

The Bantuist Meinhof made a major distinction between Bantu and a 'Semi-Bantu' group which according to him was originally of the unrelated Sudanic stock.

The two groups have been described as having mirror-image tone systems: Where Northwest Bantu has a high tone in a cognate, Central Bantu languages generally have a low tone, and vice versa.

They were largely replaced by the Bantu tribes during Bantu migrations who hailed from the Great Lakes regions of eastern and central Africa.

This list is incomplete; an attempt at a full list of Bantu languages (with various conflations and a puzzlingly diverse nomenclature) was found in The Bantu Languages of Africa, 1959.

The Nguni are a large cluster of Bantu-speaking ethnic groups in southern Africa who have played an important role in the country's history and culture.

The substantive legal team has already received backing from the UDM’s Bantu Holomisa, former DA leader Mmusi Maimaine, and several non-profit organisations in Gauteng, Limpopo, and the Eastern Cape.

You can use this for twist-outs, braid-outs, bantu knots, wash-and-gos, and more.

A former journalist with Southern Eye, Moyo arrived at Bosso from now defunct Bantu Rovers where he worked as their media liaison officer.

Apart from the six players Bantu are also on the verge of losing two defenders Bokang Sello and Tsietsi Khooa who are on Chippa United’s radar.

Interspersed throughout are snatches of interviews from the film, such as on opening number Bantu Education – where we learn of the politicised use of Afrikaans – and on the militarised tenor of The Black Consciousness Movement.

Kiswahili is a Bantu language with lexical and linguistic similarities with many African languages spoken on the continent.

This mentality of “Tenze bantu” she and Derrick Chitala like has legal consequences, if I were her I would just shut up & prepare for court as opposed to aggravating matters by committing purjury!