Yet the Swahili language, though peppered with Arabic loanwords, is closely akin to other Bantulanguages.
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Bantulanguages can have more than ten.
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Sir Harry attributes most of the higher cultural elements associated with the Bantulanguages to the non-Negro invaders.
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That's the inspiration behind the name and the logo, he says, adding that Njorku means elephant in many Bantulanguages.
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He had traded for skins in some barbarous district near the shore of Victoria Nyanza, and knew half a dozen Bantulanguages.
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That union of Austronesians and East Africans lives on today in Madagascar's basically Austronesian language, which contains loan words from coastal Kenyan Bantulanguages.
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The script is a 'featural syllabary' primarily used to write in Southern Bantulanguages; and was developed by a group of linguists, programmers and designers.
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The major portion of the book consists of illustrative vocabularies of 366 Bantu and 87 Semi- Bantulanguages and dialects with an extensive bibliography.
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But all those 500 Bantulanguages are so similar to each other that they have been facetiously described as 500 dialects of a single language.