HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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The Bantu are nomadic people in the Sahara Desert
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The Bantu are a separate race in the northern part of the African continent.
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The Bantu live only in cities and towns, none of them farm or herd animals anymore.
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There are many different ethnic groups who share a related language and some cultural characteristics.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is a tone language, displaying characteristics of grammatical and lexical tone. It has the elaborate system of noun classification and the highly agglutinative and complex verbal morphology that characterize Bantu languages in general.
Detailed explanation-2: -They raised livestock-particularly cattle-and practiced agriculture, growing grain crops such as sorghum. Bantu women eventually married Sudanic and Cushitic men and raised their children to speak the Bantu language. Between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 800, the Bantu language spread throughout the Great Lakes region.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Swahili language is a mixture of Bantu (African) and other languages, principally Arabic.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bantu is a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken in specific parts of Africa. The languages that are mostly associated with this term are Swahili and Zulu. A German Philologist, Wilhelm Bleek, coined the term ‘Bantu’ in the 19th Century as a label for a vast number of people speaking related languages.
Detailed explanation-5: -Most studies indicate that the Bantu migration originated in West Central Africa, in modern-day Cameroon and Nigeria. There are theories that indicate that Bantus specifically came from the highlands in that area. This group of people moved out across Africa in search of land and other resources.