Languages of Southern Africa - geography.

Languages of Southern Africa - geography. Overview Speakers of Bantu languages, in the Niger-Kordofanian language family (see North Africa Map Trek), once lived in a small region in Cameroon. About 1,800 years ago, these people rapidly spread south and occupied most of southern Africa. Settlers from Indonesia brought their Austronesian language (see Oceania Map Trek) to Madagascar at about the same time. About 350 years ago, settlers from Netherlands brought their Indo-European Germanic language to the southwestern tip of the contin...