1. Bantu definition is - a family of Niger-Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa.

2. The Bantu languages (or Narrow Bantu languages) are a branch of the Niger-Congo languages.There are about 520 languages in the Bantu family, 670 languages in the Southern Bantoid branch which includes Bantu, and 1,532 in Niger-Congo

3. Akan languages, dialect cluster of the Nyo group within the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family

4. Akan, ethnolinguistic grouping of peoples of the Guinea Coast who speak Akan languages (of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family)

5. Akan, a Central Tano language, constitutes one of the many languages which form the Kwa sub-family of the higher Niger-Congo phylum

6. Bambara, ethnolinguistic group of the upper Niger region of Mali whose language, Bambara (Bamana), belongs to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo language family

7. Bantu languages, a group of some 500 languages belonging to the Bantoid subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family

8. Anyi, African people who inhabit the tropical forest of eastern Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and speak a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family

9. Bemba (also called CiBemba or IciBemba; ISO 639-3 code bem) is a Niger-Congo language belonging to the Central Narrow Bantu branch (Zone M in Guthrie's 1948, 1967–71 classification)

10. Bantu peoples, the approximately 85 million speakers of the more than 500 distinct languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family, occupying almost the entire southern projection of the African continent.

11. People of Angola Ethnic and linguistic composition Apart from a few Europeans and isolated bands of Northern Khoisan speakers such as the !Kung (a San group) in the remote southeast, all Angolans speak Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo language family, which …

12. Angola - Angola - People: Apart from a few Europeans and isolated bands of Northern Khoisan speakers such as the !Kung (a San group) in the remote southeast, all Angolans speak Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo language family, which dominates western, central, and southern Africa

13. The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members on continental Asia, that are spoken by about 386 million people.It is on par with Indo-European, Niger–Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the best-established ancient language families