HISTORY 277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bantu Languages, Equatoria
Document Summary
The art of living in the inner congo basin. This idea is false: there are 1500-2000 languages in africa. Great lake bantu language- there are 500-900 related languages in africa. Over 300 million people speak them: we know this through reconstructing the vocabulary. There are borrowed words, similar words, and words with changed meanings: in africa as languages spread so did cultural and economic practices. Equatoria africa: there are 450 different people groups, there are 25 types of political entities that all seem to emerge from one political system. Village: a village is a cluster of houses, it is a unit of settlement, average village has 100 people, the people have trade food, items etc. District: a district is the largest territorial unit, a district is crucial for defense and matrimonial alliances, there are no chiefs, there are no principle village or political leader, a district usually has 500 people.
