The Bantu Expansion: How Bantu People Changed Sub-Saharan Africa

Learn Shona on Instagram: "Shona and Luganda come from the same Bantu language family, which is why many words look almost identical. Luganda often adds an ‘O’ (like omu- or oku-) to show noun or verb classes, while Shona keeps the simpler root form. So words like mwana → omwana (child), munyu → omunyu (salt), and kudya → okudya (to eat) remind us that these languages share the same ancestral roots—just different grammar systems shaping the sound.#zimbabwe #learnshona #zim #zimbabwean #uganda #l

Guthrie classification of Bantu languages - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia