Great Lakes Bantu | |
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Bantu zone J | |
Geographic distribution | Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya and the DRC |
Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
Proto-language | Proto-Great Lakes Bantu[1] |
Language codes | |
Glottolog | grea1289 |
The Great Lakes Bantu languages, also known as Lacustrine Bantu and Bantu zone J, are a group of Bantu languages of East Africa. They were recognized as a group by the Tervuren team, who posited them as an additional zone (zone J) to Guthrie's largely geographic classification of Bantu.[2]