Bantoid language

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Bantoid language - a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent Bantu Niger-Congo - a family of African language spoken in west Africa Chichewa - the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa ChiMwini - a Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia Chishona - a Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe Fang - a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon Gikuyu - a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya Giriama - a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya Herero - a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola Kamba - a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba in Kenya Chaga, Chagga, Kichaga - a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania Kinyarwanda - a Bantu language Kiswahili - a Bantu language Kongo - the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola Tshiluba, Luba - a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo LuGanda - the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda Luyia - a Bantu language Mashi - a Bantu language Mwera - a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania Nguni - a group of southern Bantu languages Nyamwezi - a Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania Pokomo - a Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa Shona - a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe Sotho - any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho Umbundu - a Bantu language spoken in Angola Swahili - the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa Tonga - the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)