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| Title: | The dispersal of the Bantu peoples in the light of linguistic evidence |
| Author: | Heine, Bernd |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Periodical: | Muntu: revue scientifique et culturelle du CICIBA |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 21-35 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | Bantu-speaking peoples migration Bantu languages |
| Abstract: | Since the 1950s, the problem of the genetic classification of the Bantu languages and the early history of Bantu Africa has found world-wide interest. The result is that we now have some clues as to the dynamics underlying the expansion of the Bantu-speaking peoples during the roughly 3 000 to 4 000 years since its beginnings. The evidence available suggests that the Bantu homelands have to be located to the northwest of the equatorial forest in Cameroon and Nigeria, and that the occupation of central, eastern and southern Africa is likely to have proceeded essentially along two main routes, one leading south through the western equatorial forest, and the other along the northern and eastern fringes of the forest belt. - Fig., maps, notes, ref., sum. (French; Portuguese; Spanish). |