Bantu languages are spoken by 300-350 million people in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.

Evidence

Bantu peoples The Bantu peoples are the speakers of the Bantu languages. It is estimated that the Bantu languages are spoken by 300–350 million Bantu people living in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (Van de Velde et al., 2019). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 65

Categorization

• DEFINE: Numbers the Bantu-speaking population precisely.
• XREF: Grounding figure useful for situating the entire Tempels-vitalogy debate. — connects to: Bantu is an umbrella linguistic term grouping similar regional languages. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 64; Bantu is a linguistic term spanning similar languages including Luba, Xhosa, and Zulu
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Bantu is an umbrella linguistic term grouping similar regional languages. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 64; Bantu is a linguistic term spanning similar languages including Luba, Xhosa, and Zulu