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Luhya languages

Great Lakes Bantu
Bantu zone J
Geographic
distribution
Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Lake Victoria
Linguistic classification Niger–Congo
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.

The languages are, according to Bastin, Coupez, & Mann (1999), with Sumbwa added per Nurse (2003):

The codes in parentheses are Guthrie's original geographic classification. Maho (2009) adds Yaka.



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