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- proper noun The hypothetical
protolanguage of theBantu languages.
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Examples
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Contini-Morava has studied the Swahili noun classification system in the context of its roots in Proto-Bantu.4
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Contini-Morava has studied the Swahili noun classification system in the context of its roots in Proto-Bantu.4
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Note 66: CS 785, 786; Proto-Bantu * - ganga "religious expert/healer."
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Note 58: CS 1226, CS 1227; Proto-Bantu * - kung - "to tie up, to gather up"; e.g.,
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Note 79: PS 290x and 290; Proto-Bantu * - kékà "mat."
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Note 102: CS 982; Proto-Bantu * - kàdaŋg - "fry, roast"; Kaskazi * - kalango "small (meat?) cooking pot"; e.g.,
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Note 72: CS 190 – 193; Proto-Bantu * - bùgà "open place"; Proto-Wami * - bùgà "open space"; e.g.,
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CS 2173; Proto-Bantu * - (j) ùngú "cooking pot" Ehret, African Classical Age, 311; Nurse and Hinnebusch, Swahili and Sabaki, 626, 636, 644; Vansina, Paths in the Rainforest, 292. back
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Note 74: CS 897; Proto-Bantu * - gunda "garden"; e.g.,
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Note 132: CS 371a; Proto-Bantu * - cokul - "to pull out"; PNECB * - cokol - "to pull out, to clear"; PR * sokola "fallow land"; e.g.,
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