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Excerpt from Living Speech in Central and South Africa: An Essay Introductory to the Bantu of Languages
But apart from the exact knowledge of the details of dialect, one or many, constant familiar contact with Bantu speech in one form or another for nearly thirty years constitutes a basis which gives to general impressions and conclusions a force greater to the writer than his actual command of facts, or the meagre selection Of them here presented to the reader, would convey. And the object has been to write an Introduction to Bantu, - not to its formal Grammars or Dictionaries, but to a great block Of Human Speech, viewed as a whole, - under necessary limitations as to the point of view.
For convenience, the Bantu Family of Languages as a whole is often referred to as Bantu, and the people speaking any dialect of it as Bantus.
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