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gptkbp:instanceOf
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language family
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gptkbp:class
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gptkb:Benue-Congo_branch
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gptkbp:firstDescribed
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gptkb:Wilhelm_Bleek
19th century
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gptkbp:glottologCode
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bnt
bant1295
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gptkbp:historicalExpansion
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gptkb:Bantu_expansion
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Bantu language family
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gptkbp:ISO639-3
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bnt
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gptkbp:language
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over 500
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gptkbp:linguisticFeature
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agglutinative morphology
noun class system
tonal languages
concordial agreement
verb inflection
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gptkbp:majorCity
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gptkb:Angola
gptkb:Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
gptkb:Kenya
gptkb:Mozambique
gptkb:South_Africa
gptkb:Tanzania
gptkb:Uganda
gptkb:Zimbabwe
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gptkbp:notableDialectGroups
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gptkb:Central_Bantu
gptkb:Eastern_Bantu
gptkb:Northwestern_Bantu
gptkb:Southern_Bantu
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gptkbp:notableLanguage
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gptkb:Shona
gptkb:Tswana
gptkb:Xhosa
gptkb:Zulu
gptkb:Kinyarwanda
gptkb:Kirundi
gptkb:Lingala
gptkb:Ganda
Swahili
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gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers
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over 350 million
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gptkbp:origin
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gptkb:Central_West_Africa
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gptkbp:region
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gptkb:Sub-Saharan_Africa
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:Kwa_languages
gptkb:Adamawa-Ubangi_languages
gptkb:Atlantic-Congo_languages
gptkb:Volta-Congo_languages
Gur languages
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gptkbp:spokenIn
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Bantu peoples
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gptkbp:subclassOf
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gptkb:Niger-Congo_languages
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gptkbp:writingSystem
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gptkb:Latin_script
Arabic script
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Guthrie_classification
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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