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Sango
a trade language widely used in Chad
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Bantoid language, Bantu
a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
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Gur, Voltaic
a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
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West African
a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa
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Mande
a group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast
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Kwa
a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
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Chichewa
the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa
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ChiMwini
a Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia
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Chishona
a Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe
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Fang
a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
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Gikuyu
a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya
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Giriama
a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya
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Herero
a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola
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Kamba
a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba in Kenya
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Chaga, Chagga, Kichaga
a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania
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Kinyarwanda
a Bantu language
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Kiswahili
a Bantu language
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Kongo
the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola
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Luba, Tshiluba
a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo
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LuGanda
the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda
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Luyia
a Bantu language
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Mashi
a Bantu language
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Mwera
a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania
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Nguni
a group of southern Bantu languages
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Nyamwezi
a Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania
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Pokomo
a Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa
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Shona
a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe
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Sotho
any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
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Umbundu
a Bantu language spoken in Angola
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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
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Tonga
the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)
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Ful, Fula, Fulani, Peul
a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages
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Serer
a West African language closely related to Fula; spoken primarily in Senegal and Gambia
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Wolof
the West African language of the Wolof in Senegal; related to Fula
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Aku, Yoruba
a Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria
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Akan
a Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast
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Ewe
a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin
