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Semi-Bantu

noun

  1. a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family

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adjective

  1. relating to or belonging to this group of languages

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In the north-west of the Bantu field, in the region between Cameroon and the north-western basin of the Congo, the Cross river and the Benue, there is an area of great extent occupied by languages of a "semi-Bantu" character, such as Nki, Mbudikum, Akpa, Mbe, Bayo�, Manya�, Bafut and Banshō, and the Munshi, Jar�wa, Kororofa, Kamuku and Gbari of the central and western Benue basin.

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This ponderous volume on the Bantu and Semi-Bantu languages is the first part of a work which represents the fruit of many years of study of multitudinous African languages and dialects.

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The major portion of the book consists of illustrative vocabularies of 366 Bantu and 87 Semi-Bantu languages and dialects with an extensive bibliography.

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The sketch map showing the distribution of Bantu and Semi-Bantu languages is absurdly inadequate.

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