(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 lgsZulu lg
Yao lg
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 lgsXhosa lg
(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 lgsVenda lg
(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 lgsUmbundu lg
(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 lgsTswana lg
(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 lgsTumbuka lg
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 lgsTsonga lg
A Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people.
ISO 639-2 Code: tso
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgsSwahili lg
(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 lgsSouth Ndebele lg
(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 lgsSukuma lg
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 lgsSwati lg
(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 lgsShona lg
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 lgsRundi 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 lgsNyoro lg
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 lgsNdonga lg
(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 lgsNorthern Sotho lg
(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 lgsNyamwezi lg
A Bantu language of central Tanzania.
ISO 639-2 Code: nym
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgsNorth Ndebele lg
(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 lgsMongo lg
(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 lgsLozi lg
(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 lgsLuba-Katanga lg
(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 lgsLunda lg
(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 lgsLingala lg
(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 lgsLamba lg
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 lgsKwanyama lg
(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 lgsKongo lg
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 lgsKikuyu lg
(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 lgsKinyarwanda lg
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 lgsKamba lg
(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 lgsKimbundu 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 lgsHerero lg
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 lgsGanda lg
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 lgsFang lg
A Central African Bantu language, dominant of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
ISO 639-2 Code: fan
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgsEwondo lg
(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 lgsDuala lg
A dialect cluster of the Bantu language family spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon.
ISO 639-2 Code: dua
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgsCiluba lg
(or Western Luba, or Ciluba/Tshiluba) A Bantu language, one of the national languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, alongside Lingala, Swahili, and Kikongo.
ISO 639-2 Code: lua
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgsChichewa lg
(or Chewa or Nyanja) A Bantu language spoken in much of Southern, Southeast and East Africa.
ISO 639-2 Code: nya
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgsBasaa lg
A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people.
ISO 639-2 Code: bas
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgsBantu lgs
a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, as part of the Bantoid group.
ISO 639-2 Code: bnt
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantoid lgs / Bantu lgsBemba lg
A Bantu language spoken by the Bemba people as well as related ethnic groups.
ISO 639-2 Code: bem
Family: Niger–Congo lgs / Atlantic–Congo lgs / Benue–Congo lgs / Bantu lgs