The Bantu expansion begins in the Nigeria–Cameroon borderland

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1. Story
2. Speakers of the languages ancestral to the Bantu group begin to spread from the Nigeria–Cameroon borderland into central Africa and thence east and south, a dispersal continuing over roughly three millennia and reaching southern Africa within the first millennium CE. The homeland is identified by the position of the group's deepest divisions and nearest relatives within the wider Niger-Congo family. The start date is a conventional approximation and the mechanism — demographic movement, technological advantage, or language shift among resident populations — remains argued.
3. Knowledge
4. Niger-Congo
5. The Bantu expansion
6. The Bantu expansion begins in the Nigeria–Cameroon borderland
7. Connections
8. The Bantu expansion
9. Niger-Congo
10. Niger-Congo
11. The Bantu expansion begins in the Nigeria–Cameroon borderland
12. The Bantu expansion
13. Greenberg reduces Africa to four families
14. The Bantu expansion begins in the Nigeria–Cameroon borderland
15. Evidence
16. Supports the four-family classification of African languages, including the establishment of Niger-Congo and Afroasiatic as currently understood, by multilateral comparison. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. The present standing of each of the four groupings is characterised from working knowledge of the subsequent literature, not from any survey retrieved in this session.