Western Lakes Bantu languages

Short description: Subgroup of Great Lakes Bantu languages

Western Lakes Bantu

Geographic
distribution| Rwanda, Burundi, Kigoma Region, South Kivu, North Kivu, Kisoro District, Rwenzururu, Kagera Region
Linguistic classification| Niger–Congo

* Atlantic–Congo
* Volta-Congo
* Benue–Congo
* Bantoid
* Southern Bantoid
* Bantu
* Northeast Bantu
* Great Lakes Bantu
* Western Lakes Bantu

Proto-language| Proto-Western Lakes Bantu[1]
Subdivisions|

* Kabwari
* Kivu
* Rwenzori

Glottolog| west2842[2]

The Western Lakes Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Great Lakes Bantu languages spoken in Rwanda, Burundi the DRC, Uganda and Tanzania.

## Classification

The Western Lakes Bantu languages are classified within the Glottolog database as follows:[3]

* Kabwari
* Kivu
* Forest Kivu
* Fuliiric
* Fuliiru-Vira
* Fuliiru
* Vira (also called Joba)
* Nyindu
* Nyindu
* Hunde-Havu
* Havu
* Hunde
* Shi
* Tembo
* West Highlands Kivu
* Kinyarwanda
* Rundic
* Ha
* Hangaza-Shubi
* Hangaza
* Shubi
* Kirundi
* Kitwa
* Vinza
* Rwenzori
* Konzo
* Nande

## History

Proto-Western Lakes Bantu was developed in 400 AD by those who remained in the original Proto-Great Lakes Bantu homeland, which was in and on the hillsides of the Kivu Rift Valley.[4]

Similar to the Okiek people in Kenya, the Great Lakes Twa played important roles as "outsiders" in the ritual and oral historiographic life of Western Lakes Bantu speaking societies.[5]

## References

1. ↑ A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. Boydell & Brewer, Limited. 1998. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-85255-681-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Si9yAAAAMAAJ.
2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Western Lakes Bantu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/west2842.
3. ↑ https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/west2842
4. ↑ A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. Boydell & Brewer, Limited. 1998. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-85255-681-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Si9yAAAAMAAJ.
5. ↑ A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. Boydell & Brewer, Limited. 1998. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-85255-681-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Si9yAAAAMAAJ.

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