Genome-wide SNP analysis of Southern African populations provides new insights into the dispersal of Bantu-speaking groups by González-Santos, M, Montinaro, F, Oosthuizen, O, Oosthuizen, E, Busby, G, Anagnostou, P, Destro-Bisol, G, Pascali, V, Capelli, C

“…It is generally accepted that Bantu languages originated in an area around the present border between Cameroon and Nigeria approximately 5,000 years ago, from where they spread South and East becoming the largest African linguistic branch. …”

Contact influence in the Tjhauba variety of Kgalagadi by Hilde Gunnink

“… Tjhauba, spoken in northwestern Botswana, is a regional variety of the Bantu language Kgalagadi. Tjhauba exhibits a number of striking linguistic differences with respect to other, previously described Kgalagadi varieties, some the result of language-internal changes, but mostly due to contact with different surrounding Khoisan and Bantu languages. …”
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Double Object Constructions in Afro-Brazilian Portuguese by Isis JULIANA FIGUEIREDO DE BARROS, Ana Regina Vaz Calindro

“…Portuguese was learned as a second language by the Africans brought to Brazil by the slave trade, mainly under the influence of the Bantu languages the slaves spoke. From this language contact, an Afro-Brazilian Portuguese variety has emerged (ABP) which displays a ditransitive construction with an unmarked Goal dative, and V-Goal-Theme order, similar to Double Object Constructions (DOC) in English. …”
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Verum in Xhosa and Zulu (Nguni) by Bloom Ström Eva-Marie, Zeller Jochen

“…In this paper we investigate how verum is realized in Xhosa and Zulu, two Southern Bantu languages belonging to the Nguni group. The data for our study were collected through interviews with native speakers who were prompted to produce sentences in discourse contexts that typically license utterances with verum. …”
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Computational morphology systems for Zulu – a comparison by Sonja Bosch

“… The morphological analysis of Bantu languages, particularly for those with a conjunctive orthography such as Zulu, is crucial not only for the purposes of accurate corpus searches for Bantu linguists, but also as a basic enabling application that facilitates the development of more advanced tools and practical language processing applications, such as tokenising, disambiguation, part-of-speech tagging, parsing and machine translation. …”
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Against expectations – the rise of adverbs in Swahili phasal polarity by Aron Zahran, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström

“…In contrast to many other Eastern Bantu languages, we show that the dedicated expressions for PhP concepts in Swahili are mainly adverbs, with limited use of verbal affixes. …”
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Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology. by Sam Passmore, Wolfgang Barth, Simon J Greenhill, Kyla Quinn, Catherine Sheard, Paraskevi Argyriou, Joshua Birchall, Claire Bowern, Jasmine Calladine, Angarika Deb, Anouk Diederen, Niklas P Metsäranta, Luis Henrique Araujo, Rhiannon Schembri, Jo Hickey-Hall, Terhi Honkola, Alice Mitchell, Lucy Poole, Péter M Rácz, Sean G Roberts, Robert M Ross, Ewan Thomas-Colquhoun, Nicholas Evans, Fiona M Jordan

“…We demonstrate strong gender bias in the phonological structure of parent terms across 1,022 languages, and we show that there is no evidence for a coevolutionary relationship between cross-cousin marriage and bifurcate-merging terminology in Bantu languages. Analysing kinship data is notoriously challenging; Kinbank aims to eliminate data accessibility issues from that challenge and provide a platform to build an interdisciplinary understanding of kinship.…”
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Linguistic diversity, language rights and linguistic planning in Mozambique: problems and challenges in the adoption of the language of instruction in teaching and learning process by Maria Helena de Paula, Zacarias Alberto Sozinho Quiraque

“…Bibliographical research and introspection was the method we used to support the study, based in the position that Mozambique needs a model that promotes an initial bilingualism from the first years of schooling, prevising the continuity of the use of Bantu languages in the subsequent primary classes of education. …”
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Syllable Structure in Setswana Personal Names by Boikanyego Sebina, Thapelo Joseph Otlogetswe

“…The study analyses the characteristics of syllables in personal names of the Setswana (Tswana) language (Sotho subgroup of the Bantu languages, Southern Africa). The authors focus on 1,001 most frequent names extracted from a dataset of 1,093,265 names using Wordsmith Tools. …”
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Templatic morphology through syntactic selection: Valency-changing extensions in Kinyarwanda by Banerjee, Neil

“…The two principles sometimes predict opposite orderings for the surface form of valency-changing derivational morphology in Bantu languages. In Kinyarwanda, this tension is unresolved, leading to certain forms being unavailable, rather than favouring one principle over the other. …”
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ENTRE “BEATS” E RIMAS: FUSÃO DE LÍNGUAS E IDENTIDADES NAS MÚSICAS URBANAS EM PORTUGAL by Isabelle SIMÕES MARQUES

“…The linguistic repertoire of most of these artists includes different varieties of Portuguese, Creole (of Cape Verde and Sao Tome) and different African dialects (mostly Bantu languages of Angola). In this article, we analyse the bilingualism (code-switching and code-mixing) within the songs, produced by artists who reflect their multiculturalism in the lyrics of their songs. …”
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Umunthu, Covid-19 and mental health in Malawi by Jimmy Kainja, Yamikani Ndasauka, Martina Mchenga, Fiskani Kondowe, Chilungamo M'manga, Limbika Maliwichi, Simunye Nyamali

“…There are spelling variations of the word across Bantu languages, including bomoto (Congo), gimuntu (Angola); umunthu (Malawi); vumutu (Mozambique); vumuntu, vhutu (South Africa); humhunu/ubuthosi (Zimbabwe); bumuntu (Tanzania); and umuntu (Uganda). …”
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The genetic prehistory of southern Africa by Pickrell, Joseph K., Patterson, Nick, Barbieri, Chiara, Berthold, Falko, Gerlach, Linda, Güldemann, Tom, Kure, Blesswell, Mpoloka, Sununguko Wata, Nakagawa, Hirosi, Naumann, Christfried, Lipson, Mark, Loh, Po-Ru, Lachance, Joseph, Mountain, Joanna, Bustamante, Carlos D., Berger, Bonnie, Tishkoff, Sarah A., Henn, Brenna M., Stoneking, Mark, Reich, David, Pakendorf, Brigitte

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Human genetic variation and the dispersal of Bantu-speaking populations by dos Santos, M

“…<p>The expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralist populations had a significant impact on the genetic, linguistic, and cultural variation of sub-Saharan Africa. Bantu languages originated in an area close to the present-day border between Cameroon and Nigeria not earlier than 5000 years ago. …”

Recent acquisition of Helicobacter pylori by Baka pygmies. by Sandra Nell, Daniel Eibach, Valeria Montano, Ayas Maady, Armand Nkwescheu, Jose Siri, Wael F Elamin, Daniel Falush, Bodo Linz, Mark Achtman, Yoshan Moodley, Sebastian Suerbaum

“…Similarly, a new hpAfrica1 subpopulation, identified mainly among Cameroonians, supports eastern and western expansions of Bantu languages. An age-structured transmission model shows that the low H. pylori prevalence among Baka Pygmies is achievable within the timeframe of a few hundred years and suggests that demographic factors such as small population size and unusually low life expectancy can lead to the eradication of H. pylori from individual human populations. …”
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Reflexive Morphology in the Kikongo Language Cluster: Variation and Diachrony by Sebastian Dom

“…This paper provides a comparative and diachronic account of reflexive morphology in the Kikongo language cluster, a genealogically closely related group of 40+ West Coastal Bantu languages. This study is based on data from 34 grammatical descriptions from 1659 to 2017 and fieldwork data collected in 2012 and 2015. …”
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Datives at large by Cuervo, Maria Cristina

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Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa by Pickrell, Joseph K., Patterson, Nick, Loh, Po-Ru, Lipson, Mark, Berger, Bonnie, Stoneking, Mark, Pakendorf, Brigitte, Reich, David

“…Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of Khoisan populations (southern African hunter–gatherers and pastoralists who speak non-Bantu languages with click consonants). One involved populations related to Niger–Congo-speaking African populations, and the other introduced ancestry most closely related to west Eurasian (European or Middle Eastern) populations. …”
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Argument licensing and agreement in Zulu by Halpert, Claire

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Contact linguistique et glottogenèse by Cyril Aslanov, Sibylle Kriegel, Georges Daniel Véronique

“…A majority of speakers of Bantu languages were present in the early years of the founding of Martinique whereas Saint Domingue-Haiti was primarily populated by speakers of Gbe languages. …”
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