The word Bantu for the language families and its speakers is an artificial term based on the reconstructed Proto-Bantu term for "people" or "humans".It was first introduced (as Bâ-ntu) by Wilhelm Bleek in 1857 or 1858, and popularised in his Comparative Grammar of 1862. The name was coined to represent the word for "people" in loosely reconstructed Proto-Bantu, from the …

The Bantu languages (English: / ˈ b æ n t uː /, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.. The total number of Bantu languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect", and is estimated at …

Etimologia. A palavra "bantu" é derivada da palavra ba-ntu, formado por ba (prefixo nominal de classe 2) e nto, que significa "pessoa" ou "humanos". [6] Versões dessa palavra ocorrem em todas as línguas bantus: por exemplo, como watu em suaíli; Muntu em quicongo; batu em lingala; bato em duala; abanto em Gusii; andũ em quicuio; abantu em zulu, quitara, [7] e ganda; vanhu em …

Als Migration wird eine auf Dauer angelegte räumliche Veränderung des Lebensmittelpunktes einer oder mehrerer Personen verstanden. Migration, die über Landesgrenzen hinweg erfolgt, wird als internationale Migration bezeichnet. Als Gegenstand von Forschung und praktischer Begleitung ist Migration in einer Reihe wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen vertreten, darunter den ...