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Summary

Bantu expansion according to Derek Nurse und Gérard Philippson: The Bantu Languages. Routledge, London 2003.

• 1 = 2000–1500 BC origin
• 2 = ca.1500 BC first migrations
  2.a = Eastern African, 2.b = Western African
• 3 = 1000–500 BC Urewe nucleus of Eastern African
• 4–7 = southward advance
• 9 = 500 BC–0 Congo nucleus
• 10 = AD 0–1000 last phase

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