ABSTRACT
The Bantu family of languages is spoken throughout Southern and Central Africa, as far as the Gulf of Cameroons on the north-west, and the Tana river on the north-east. This area is interrupted by the following islands or‘enclaves’ of speech belonging to other families :
The Galla : between the Sabaki and Tana.
The Masai: to the east and south-east of Lake Victoria.
The Jaluo (‘Nilotic Kavirondo’) : at the north-eastern corner of Lake Victoria.
The Hottentots and Bushmen : in South Africa.
Also several small and little known tribes (Mbugu, Sandawi, etc.), in the depression south-east of Kilimanjaro, whom we need not specify more particularly.
