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Other western Semi-Bantu-speaking groups include the Tikar, who live in the Bamenda region and in the western high plateau.
Stay in touch on Facebook or by signing up for the e-mail list to receive the weekly newsletter.My results indicate that I am 41% cameroon, congo, southern bantu and 30% Nigerian DNA.
If you have any questions about something that you read in this post, or if you would like to share your own experience with this DNA ethnicity region, I would love to hear from you in the comments. the The geographical shape and course of the Bantu expansion remains debated. Derek Nurse, 2006, "Bantu Languages", in the Total population cannot be established with any accuracy due to the unavailability of precise census data from Sub-Saharan Africa. Later migrations are indicated by subsequent numbers. Millions of people with African roots living in North and South America will find a genetic heritage in the Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu DNA region. I always thought of myself as fairly knowledgeable about world geography, especially since I have a degree in International Affairs. Nigeria lies to the west, Chad and the Central African Republic to the east, and the People's Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon to the south. There is some scientific debate about the exact trajectory of these migrations, but the map does show what is currently the general consensus.I first became interested in researching this DNA region when I noticed a small percentage in my mother’s Ancestry DNA results.
), Pollard, Elizabeth; Rosenberg, Clifford; Tignor, Robert (2011).
I hope that this post has given you some understanding of the Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples DNA region on Ancestry DNA. By speaking with your oldest living relatives (please take notes! After Examples of South African usages of "Bantu" include: The total number of languages ranges in the hundreds, depending on the definition of The larger of the individual Bantu groups have populations of several million, e.g.
21-25.Isichei, Elizabeth Allo, A History of African Societies to 1870 Cambridge University Press, 1997, Daniel Don Nanjira, African Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy: From Antiquity to the 21st Century, ABC-CLIO, 2010, p.114THE ROLE OF THE YOUTH IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE APARTHEID REGIME IN THABAMOOPO DISTRICT OF THE LEBOWA HOMELAND, 1970 -1994: A CRITICAL HISTORICAL STUDY, page 47Population of all of Sub-Saharan Africa, including the West African and Sahel countries with no Bantu populations. Its area is 179,527 square miles (465,000 square kilometers). Bantu peoples, the approximately 85 million speakers of the more than 500 distinct languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family, occupying almost the entire southern projection of the African continent.
Bantu languages are theorised to derive from the Proto-Bantu reconstructed language, estimated to have been spoken about 4,000 to 3,000 years ago in West/Central Africa (the area of modern-day Cameroon). My daughter and my mother’s Southeastern Bantu ancestors live on through the genetic print they left in their descendants. This DNA region is one of the largest in Africa.According to Ancestry DNA, the Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples DNA is most commonly found in the following countries:DNA from the Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu region will be found, less commonly, in people who live in countries that border the edges of the ethnicity region.