“The center of the world is everywhere and the periphery nowhere.”
A language spoken in West Africa and most prominently South western Nigeria mainly by the ethnic Yoruba people, connected with the Santería religion and Candomblé, as well as many other Afro-American religions in the Americas and the Caribbean.
ISO 639-2 Code: yor
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Volta–Niger lgs / Yoruboid lgs
A Bantu language in Africa spoken in Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique.
ISO 639-2 Code: yao
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or isiZulu) A Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken in Southern Africa, the language of the Zulu people.
ISO 639-2 Code: zul
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Tshivenda or Luvenḓa) A Bantu language and an official language of South Africa spoken by the Venda people.
ISO 639-2 Code: ven
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or South Mbundu) A Bantu language of Angola, spoken by Ovimbundu.
ISO 639-2 Code: umb
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or isiXhosa) A Nguni Bantu language with click consonants spoken in South Africa.
ISO 639-2 Code: xho
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs
A Senegambian language spoken in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania, the native language of the Wolof people.
ISO 639-2 Code: wol
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / atlantiques / Senegambian lgs A Bantu language spoken in the Northern Region of Malawi and also in the Lundazi district of Zambia.
ISO 639-2 Code: tum
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs
A Southern Bantoid language spoken in some states in North Central Nigeria.
ISO 639-2 Code: tiv
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantoid lgs (or Temne) A language of the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family, spoken in Sierra Leone.
ISO 639-2 Code: tem
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs (or Setswana) A Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa, an official language and lingua franca of Botswana.
ISO 639-2 Code: tsn
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Akan Kasa) A dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana mainly by the Akan people.
ISO 639-2 Code: twi
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Tano lgs A Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people.
ISO 639-2 Code: tso
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Swazi, or siSwati) A Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Eswatini and South Africa by the Swazi people.
ISO 639-2 Code: ssw
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs Sukuma is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken in an area southeast of Lake Victoria between Mwanza, Shinyanga, and Lake Eyasi.[4]
ISO 639-2 Code: suk
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs
(or Kiswahili) A Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people, a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of eastern and south-eastern Africa.
ISO 639-2 Code: swa
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Southern Ndebele) An African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Ndebele people of South Africa.
ISO 639-2 Code: nbl
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs A language of the Senegambian branch spoken in Senegal and the Gambia, principal language of the Serer people.
ISO 639-2 Code: srr
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Senegambian lgs A Bantu language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
ISO 639-2 Code: sna
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Sangho) A creole language in the Central African Republic and the primary language spoken in the country.
ISO 639-2 Code: sag
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Ngbandi-based creole lg (or Kirundi) A Bantu language spoken in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as in Uganda.
ISO 639-2 Code: run
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs A Bantu language spoken by the Nyoro people of Uganda.
ISO 639-2 Code: nyo
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Northern Sotho, Sesotho sa Leboa) A Bantu language spoken primarily in South Africa.
ISO 639-2 Code: nso
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs A Bantu language of central Tanzania.
ISO 639-2 Code: nym
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Oshindonga) A Bantu language spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola.
ISO 639-2 Code: ndo
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Nzima or Appolo) A Central Tano language spoken by the Nzema people of southwestern Ghana and southeastern Côte d’Ivoire.
ISO 639-2 Code: nzi
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Kwa lgs (or Northern Ndebele) An African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Northern Ndebele people, or Matabele, of Zimbabwe.
ISO 639-2 Code: nde
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Mooré) A Gur language of the Oti–Volta branch and one of two official regional languages of Burkina Faso, spoken by the Mossi people.
ISO 639-2 Code: mos
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Gur lgs (or Nkundo or Mongo-Nkundu) A Bantu language spoken by several of the Mongo peoples in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
ISO 639-2 Code: lol
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or siLozi and Rozi) A Bantu language of the Niger–Congo language family spoken by the Lozi people, primarily in southwestern Zambia and in surrounding countries.
ISO 639-2 Code: loz
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Luba-Shaba or Kiluba) One of the two major Bantu languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoken mostly by the Luba people.
ISO 639-2 Code: lub
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Chilunda) A Bantu language spoken in Zambia, Angola and, to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
ISO 639-2 Code: lun
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Ngala) A Bantu language mainly spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a large part of the Republic of the Congo.
ISO 639-2 Code: lin
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Cuanhama) A national language of Angola and Namibia.
ISO 639-2 Code: kua
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs A Bantu language ("mu ntu" means "one person" in Lamba and "ba ntu" means "two or more people") found in Zambia and spoken in the Copperbelt, as well as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Lusaka because of migration.
ISO 639-2 Code: lam
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs A group of languages belonging to the Niger–Congo language family, spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the east of Côte d’Ivoire.
ISO 639-2 Code: kro
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs (or Gikuyu) A language of the Bantu family spoken primarily by the Kikuyu people of Kenya.
ISO 639-2 Code: kik
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs A Bantu language spoken by the Kongo and Ndundu people living in the equatorial forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Angola.
ISO 639-2 Code: kon
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs An official language of Rwanda and a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language.
ISO 639-2 Code: kin
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs A group of Bantu languages mainly spoken in Angola.
ISO 639-2 Code: kmb
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs (or Kikamba) A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people of Kenya.
ISO 639-2 Code: kam
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs The principal native language of the Igbo people, in Nigeria.
ISO 639-2 Code: ibo
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Volta–Congo lgs A Bantu language mainly spoken by the Herero and Mbanderu peoples in Namibia and Botswana.
ISO 639-2 Code: her
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs A Kru language of Liberia.
ISO 639-2 Code: grb
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Kru lgs (or Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka) Languages spoken in Central African Republic and across the border in Cameroon.
ISO 639-2 Code: gba
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Savannas lgs A Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region by Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, including Kampala;
ISO 639-2 Code: lug
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs Ga is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, in and around the capital Accra.
ISO 639-2 Code: gaa
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Volta–Congo lgs / Kwa lgs (or Fulfulde, or Pulaar) A Senegambian language spoken in 20 countries in West and Central Africa.
ISO 639-2 Code: ful
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Senegambian lgs Part of the Eastern Gbe language cluster, spoken mainly in Benin by the Fon people.
ISO 639-2 Code: fon
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Volta–Congo lgs / Gbe lgs (or Kolo) The language of the Ewondo people (Beti be Kolo or Kolo-Beti) of Cameroon.
ISO 639-2 Code: ewo
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs