Category
page 1Semi-Bantu
Bamileke people
ethnic group of West Province of Cameroon
Bamun people
ethnic group in Cameroon
Tikar people
ethnic group in Cameroon
Semi-Bantu
Semi-Bantu is a language classification within the Niger-Congo group of languages proposed by linguist Carl Meinhof. The Semi-Bantu or Semibantu are specific inhabitants of the Western grassfields of Cameroon (portions of the Adamawa, West, Northwest, and Southwest regions), who speak languages that have certain characteristics to the Bantu language family, particularly the noun class system that is characteristic of Bantu languages. but are excluded from them. The people themselves are considered ethnically and linguistically divergent from other Bantu peoples of central and southern Africa.