| Central Bantu | |
|---|---|
| Savannah Bantu | |
| Geographic distribution: |
Central, East, and Southern Africa |
| Linguistic classification: | Niger–Congo
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| Subdivisions: | |
| Ethnologue code: | 75-16 |
The Central Bantu or Savannah Bantu languages are those Narrow Bantu languages which fall outside Northwest Bantu. This generally means more-or-less zones D through S in Guthrie's geographic classification. They include most of the numerically important Bantu languages. The evidence for Central Bantu is lexical, and there is no evidence that it is historically valid.