Semi-Banty is a language classification within the Niger-Congo group of languages proposed by linguist Carl Meinhof.[1] TheSemi-Bantu orSemibantu are specific inhabitants of theWestern grassfields ofCameroon (portions of theAdamawa,West,Northwest, andSouthwest regions), who speak languages that have certain characteristics to theBantu language family, particularly the noun class system that is characteristic of Bantu languages.[2] but are excluded from them.[3] The people themselves are considered ethnically and linguistically divergent from otherBantu peoples ofcentral andsouthern Africa.[4][5]
When these ethnic groups migrated into northern Cameroon, their languages were influenced by the languages of bothBantu-speaking ethnic groups in the forests to the south and of theBenue-Congo-speaking peoples of the savannas to the north.
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