The Bantu Expansion

The Bantu Expansion was one of the largest human migrations in history, and they brought an entirely new set of languages with them to all over Sub-Saharan Africa.
Further Reading:
Africa: A biography of the continent
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The Bantu languages
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The Oxford handbook of African languages
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[@ImpossibleEvan]

Crazy how this is called a migration and not genocide

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

A three thousand year genocide? Was the expansion of Early European Farmers a genocide?

[@patrickvally6572]

Explain

[@gamalnassertv]

Bantu vernacular and words in these languages can also be very easily understood by others

[@kevinwells9751]

Yay! More content on lesser known (to western audiences at least) language families!

[@Moe-d8y]

They didn't just displace and assimilate people they wiped them out with brute force, the Rwandan genocide is a perfect example of their barbarity.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

The Tutsi were Bantu.

[@Moe-d8y]

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 They speak a bantu language but they're not bantu. They're southern cushites that were assimilated.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@Moe-d8y their closest relatives are Hutu.
You're very irritating.

[@TIENxSHINHAN]

The Rwandan genocide happened thousands of years after the Bantu expansion. This is like blaming Rome for the Holocaust.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@Moe-d8y their closest genetic relatives are neighboring Hutu, what are you talking about?

[@helenmachelen4200]

Lol try expansionism and conquest by the iron swords

[@user-hy4xz1qt9h]

Source?

[@Murdock-2.0]

Now THAT'S what I'd be interested in! 😊

[@user-hy4xz1qt9h]

Is there a source for this claim?

[@hlogilehlogonolo5438]

@@user-hy4xz1qt9hno there isn’t but they love to try and claim it

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

Go iron a shirt and stay out of male topics.

[@StarrysLostandFound]

👍👊✨

[@HONOROFCOURSE]

It's Cameroon where the

[@HONOROFCOURSE]

M and then something else

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

Glory be to God.

[@tshepangmoletsane1866]

Lies as usual. 😂😂😂😂😂 WE ARE NOT BANTU!

[@XabisoNcanywa]

Lets pretend this Bantu thing makes sense. Why is it that these languages are now so different that you can not communicate amongst each other with any comprehension. For example, we know for certain that Afrikaans was derived from Dutch, After 400 yrs, Dutch and Afrikaans speakers can hear each other and comprehend each other. What is so special with the so called bantu languages that they are soo diferent? The Southern African so called "Bantu" languages have clicks which are very fundamental to the language (Without the clicks the languages don`t make sense) and no one has come with any theory of substance for this. Someone proposed that kids took it from khoisan mothers and it got integrated like that but that has been proven a lie. Another one recently proposed it was used as part of practicing respect (Ukuhloniphisa) but this also just exposes ignorance, of the guy who proposed this, about the languages and how respect (Ukuhloniphisa) in that sense actually works. The theory is really stupid and lacks substance or evidence

[@skp8748]

Lol this is a whole field of study. Indian is related german but not its neighbouring Chinese.
Linguistic relation isn't about mutual intelligibility it's about syntax, morphology and more...
Look at Indo European ! Can a French speaker understand a Lithuanian? Can an English speaker understand Portuguese? No but they're linguistically related.
Afroasiatic comprises of semitic, cushitic and omotic.
Just within semitic is amharic, hebrew and Arabic... an Amhara from Ethiopia can't speak to Arabic speaker from Yemen however they're languages are structurally related. You can even study to see which came first ect..
BUT even within Arabic which is a sub group of semitic which itself a subgroup of afro asiatic you'll have various regional versions even with in that like levantine, Egyptian and gulf Arabic..

[@XabisoNcanywa]

@@skp8748 linguistics and bantu expansion "HYPOTHESIS" are two different things. Linguistics could be one of the fields used to argue the "HYPOTHESIS" , but alone does not propose the hypothesis, so you can not argue the field of linguistics to argue the hypothesis which is a different thing. For example, are linguists now claiming that Indians were once Germans or vice versa since they are related? What proof is there that people migrated from Congo down south or outwards? What evidence is there that they can not have migrated from south (Where there is cadle of human kind) upwards?... Notice how I used the term "HYPOTHESIS" because the bantu expansion narrative is not even scientifically qualified as a theory. It might as well be as a scientific fact as Larmakism.

[@skp8748]

@@XabisoNcanywa ydna haplogroup markers... they're older in west central with later subclades following the expansion pattern

[@gags-villsounds5351]

​@@skp8748 please provide source for that

[@HelderGriff]

​@@XabisoNcanywa you have a great point

[@JaysSavvy]

Ask yourself why the Bantu Language groups have no way of indicating future actions or plans. None of them.
Bantu is fascinating in so much as there are no words for the future tense. Everything in Bantu is spoken in the present or past tense.
Subsequently, Bantu Speakers have trouble visualizing the future/planning ahead.

[@LinguisticDiscovery]

That's blatantly false, sorry. Swahili: ninaenda 'I am going' vs. nitaenda 'I will go'. *English* is actually a language that doesn't have a dedicated future tense; it uses a modal verb "will" instead.

[@JaysSavvy]

​@@LinguisticDiscovery It's not false. "I will go" isn't proof of future tense in their language. "Will you go to the store?" - "I will go" would be the accurate context in which that phrase would be used.
"ENGLISH is actually a language that doesn't have a dedicated future tense."
Meanwhile - we actually have a term for "Future Tense" while there isn't a single Bantu Language that even considers tense, past or future.
You're just wrong. I don't know why people with your physiognomy tend to have to defend Africans from any from of criticism. It's not helping anyone.

[@Zathriscm]

@@JaysSavvyThats blatantly false lmao

[@JaysSavvy]

@@Zathriscm You people keep saying that but you can't give an example because there isn't one.

[@Zathriscm]

@@JaysSavvy Whats the point? … You seem too ignorant to be worth speaking to

[@jodejones5217]

Dude Bantu expansion is a colonial lie. West Africa oral history don’t mention anything about Bantu’s and till this day we west Africans are the only subsaharan place who don’t have Bantu’s

[@Sp7033]

It's not a lie haha, it's proven by both genetic and linguistic studies

[@uBhubesi]

though i agree the whole idea of the BANTU MIGRATION is propagated and a lie , you too need reflect on the lie you tell yourself that you are not UMUNTU(a singular term for ABANTU ,which is plural) ... you fell to the colonial lie that ABANTU are a different people from you because you don't have the same dialect , when genetically nothing separates you from the peoples called ABANTU ... you need to know the word ABANTU refers to the group humans call "black people" , thus you find renditions of the word "ABANTU" in every dialect in the landmass we call 'africa' , even in north , western and eastern parts of this landmass , there's a native term with the same etymology as the word ABANTU ...
i'd like to suggest you study our history from teachings and analysis from people who look like you , like me , MELANATED , ABANTU , they at least base their knowledge on us as one ... for if there's one thing we agree on , is HUMANS CAN'T TEACH US THE TRUTH OF OUR TRUTHS , FOR THAT WOULD DEBUNK ALL THEIR LIES THAT THEY USE TO JUSTIFY THEIR NATURE TOWARDS US AS A PEOPLE , AND OUR SHARED HISTORY AS ABANTU .

[@uBhubesi]

​@@Sp7033studies done by the very people , who according to their own accounts , invaded , mutilated and conquered ABANTU ... so how stupid do you think us to be to believe lies that are imposed on us as truths , when we have our own accounts to our own truths?
please pay us some respect , ABANTU(so-called 'black people') birthed civilization(which mind you were magnificent and without ills of today) , so if we had the minds for that , we certainly have enough brain power to innerstand our own history

[@HelderGriff]

But it is a fact that most of Sub Saharan Africa speak languages related to the language family of Niger-Congo languages

[@HelderGriff]

​@@uBhubesi most Sub Saharan African languages belong to the Niger-Congo language family