Great Lakes Bantu languages

Great Lakes Bantu
Bantu zone J
Geographic
distribution
Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya and the DRC
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Proto-languageProto-Great Lakes Bantu
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologgrea1289

The Great Lakes Bantu languages, also known as Lacustrine Bantu and Bantu zone J, are a group of Bantu languages of East Africa. They were recognized as a group by the Tervuren team, who posited them as an additional zone (zone J) to Guthrie's largely geographic classification of Bantu.