Bantu zone P

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Bantu zone P is a group of closely related Bantu languages identified within Malcolm Guthrie’s geographic classification of the Niger-Congo language family.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language group
Guthrie Bantu zone
createdBy Malcolm Guthrie NERFINISHED
documentedIn Comparative Bantu (Guthrie) NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Guthrie zone P NERFINISHED
Zone P (Bantu) NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic agglutinative morphology
closely related Bantu varieties
noun class system
primarily tonal languages
hasClassificationBasis geographic distribution
lexical similarity
morphological similarity
phonological similarity
hasCodePrefix P
hasCreationPeriod mid-20th century
hasGlottologType dialect cluster
hasLinguisticLevel cluster of Bantu languages
language group
hasMacroFamily Atlantic-Congo languages NERFINISHED
Benue-Congo languages NERFINISHED
Southern Bantoid languages NERFINISHED
Volta-Congo languages NERFINISHED
hasMemberLanguage Holoholo language NERFINISHED
Hungana language NERFINISHED
Lumbu language (if classified in P in some sources)
Ngongo language (Bantu) NERFINISHED
Pelende language NERFINISHED
Sonde language NERFINISHED
Suku language NERFINISHED
Yaka language NERFINISHED
Yans language NERFINISHED
hasNeighborZone Bantu zone H NERFINISHED
Bantu zone K NERFINISHED
Bantu zone L NERFINISHED
Bantu zone R NERFINISHED
hasRegion Angola NERFINISHED
Central Africa NERFINISHED
Democratic Republic of the Congo NERFINISHED
isSubsetOf Guthrie zones A–S NERFINISHED
namedAfter Malcolm Guthrie NERFINISHED
partOf Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Guthrie classification of Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Niger-Congo language family NERFINISHED
subclassOf Bantu subgroup
usedIn comparative Bantu linguistics
historical linguistics of Bantu
usesNotationSystem Guthrie zone-letter code

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