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Bantu

large language family spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language language_family Q33146
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Summary

Bantu is a language family[1]. Bantu ranks in the top 2% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,055 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: Southern Bantoid[3], Atlantic–Congo[4]
  • Commons category: Bantu languages[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bantu languages[6]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[7], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8]
  • Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[9], synthetic language[10]

Why It Matters

Bantu has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] Bantu is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . loc.gov. Retrieved . loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3fRX0K
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C161853
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 17534, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  3. 24w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → Southern Bantoid, Atlantic–Congo
    Umls cui → C0574478
    Instance of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Bantu languages
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Umls cui: C0574478"
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