Southern Bantu

E25286
Bantu language branch language group

Southern Bantu is a major branch of the Bantu language family comprising numerous closely related languages spoken primarily in the southern regions of Africa.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Southern Bantu languages 1
Tswa–Ronga group 1

Statements (74)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language branch ⓘ
language group ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Central Bantu ⓘ
Eastern Bantu ⓘ
geographicDistribution southern regions of Africa ⓘ
hasMemberLanguage Changana ⓘ
Chichewa ⓘ
surface form: Chewa

Chichewa ⓘ
Herero ⓘ
Kalanga ⓘ
Southern Bantu languages ⓘ
surface form: Kavango languages

Lomwe ⓘ
Lozi ⓘ
Makhuwa ⓘ
Makua languages ⓘ
Ndau ⓘ
Northern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Ndebele

Ngoni ⓘ
Nguni languages ⓘ
Northern Ndebele ⓘ
Northern Sotho (Sepedi) ⓘ
surface form: Northern Sotho

Nyanja ⓘ
Ovambo ⓘ
Ronga ⓘ
Sena ⓘ
Northern Sotho (Sepedi) ⓘ
surface form: Sepedi

Sesotho ⓘ
Setswana ⓘ
Shona ⓘ
Shona ⓘ
surface form: Shona languages

Sotho ⓘ
Sotho–Tswana languages ⓘ
Southern Ndebele ⓘ
Swati ⓘ
Eswatini ⓘ
surface form: Swazi

Tonga (Zambia) ⓘ
Tonga (Zimbabwe) ⓘ
Tonga languages (southern Africa) ⓘ
Tshivenda ⓘ
Tsonga ⓘ
Setswana ⓘ
surface form: Tswana

Tswa–Ronga languages ⓘ
Venda ⓘ
Xhosa ⓘ
Xitsonga ⓘ
Yao ⓘ
Zulu ⓘ
hasSubgroup Makua group ⓘ
Nguni languages ⓘ
Shona group ⓘ
Sotho–Tswana languages ⓘ
Tonga languages (southern Africa) ⓘ
surface form: Tonga group (southern Africa)

Southern Bantu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Tswa–Ronga group
linguisticFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
concordial agreement ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
partOf Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
surface form: Niger–Congo language family

Southern Bantoid ⓘ
surface form: Southern Bantoid languages
spokenIn Botswana ⓘ
Eswatini ⓘ
Lesotho ⓘ
Malawi ⓘ
Mozambique ⓘ
Namibia ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ
Southern Africa ⓘ
Zambia ⓘ
Zimbabwe ⓘ
subclassOf Bantu languages ⓘ
usedBy various ethnic groups in Southern Africa ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Bantu → hasSubgroup → Southern Bantu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tswa–Ronga group
Chichewa → languageBranch → Southern Bantu ⓘ
Zulu → languageFamily → Southern Bantu ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Bantu languages
Umbundu → subbranch → Southern Bantu ⓘ
Northern Ndebele → subfamily → Southern Bantu ⓘ