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Eastern Africa and southeastern Central Africa
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Kaskazi is a branch of the Mashariki Bantu grouping. It encompasses several linguistic subgroups distributed through eastern African zones and is also associated with historical language contact and substrata identified in Botatwe and Sabi languages in Zambia.
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Kaskazi is identified as the first major branch of Mashariki. Its listed components include Lakes, Upland, Langi, Takama, Northeast-Coastal, Njombe, Kilombero, Rufiji-Ruvuma, and Mwika-Rungwe. These labels correspond to linguistic zones extending across eastern Africa.
The passage associates Kaskazi with wider historical movements beyond its core eastern African distribution. A phonologically demonstrable loanword layer from an extinct narrow Mashariki language, apparently belonging to Kaskazi, occurs in Botatwe languages. This pattern suggests that Kaskazi-speaking populations occupied parts of the region before the later expansion of Botatwe settlement across southern Zambia.
A comparable Kaskazi substratum is proposed for Sabi languages spoken across eastern Zambia. The earlier Kalambo culture is attributed to Mwika-Rungwe or other peoples with Kaskazi affiliations, before the Lwangwa archaeological tradition spread across the region.
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Eastern Africa and southeastern Central Africa
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
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Kaskazi is identified as the first major branch of Mashariki. Its listed components include Lakes, Upland, Langi, Takama, Northeast-Coastal, Njombe, Kilombero, Rufiji-Ruvuma, and Mwika-Rungwe. These labels correspond to linguistic zones extending across eastern Africa.
The passage associates Kaskazi with wider historical movements beyond its core eastern African distribution. A phonologically demonstrable loanword layer from an extinct narrow Mashariki language, apparently belonging to Kaskazi, occurs in Botatwe languages. This pattern suggests that Kaskazi-speaking populations occupied parts of the region before the later expansion of Botatwe settlement across southern Zambia.
A comparable Kaskazi substratum is proposed for Sabi languages spoken across eastern Zambia. The earlier Kalambo culture is attributed to Mwika-Rungwe or other peoples with Kaskazi affiliations, before the Lwangwa archaeological tradition spread across the region.
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