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Many of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Twa" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Twa">southern Twa</a> are missing.</figcaption></figure> <p>The term <b><a href="/wiki/Congo_Pygmies" class="mw-redirect" title="Congo Pygmies">Congo Pygmies</a></b> (African Pygmies) refers to "forest people" who have, or recently had, a <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunter-gatherer</a> economy and a simple, non-hierarchical societal structure based on <a href="/wiki/Band_society" title="Band society">bands</a>, are of short stature,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have a deep cultural and religious affinity with the <a href="/wiki/Congolian_forests" class="mw-redirect" title="Congolian forests">Congo forest</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and live in a generally subservient relationship with agricultural "patrons", with which they trade forest products such as meat and honey for agricultural and iron products. </p><p>Though lumped together as "Pygmies" by outsiders, including their patrons, these peoples are not related to each other either ethnically or linguistically. Different Pygmy peoples may have distinct genetic mechanisms for their short stature, demonstrating diverse origins. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Original_Pygmy_language(s)"><span id="Original_Pygmy_language.28s.29"></span>Original Pygmy language(s)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Original Pygmy language(s)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An original Pygmy language has been postulated for at least some Pygmy groups. <a href="/wiki/Merritt_Ruhlen" title="Merritt Ruhlen">Merritt Ruhlen</a> writes that "African Pygmies speak languages belonging to either to the <a href="/wiki/Nilo-Saharan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nilo-Saharan">Nilo-Saharan</a> or <a href="/wiki/Niger%E2%80%93Kordofanian" class="mw-redirect" title="Niger–Kordofanian">Niger–Kordofanian</a> families. It is assumed that Pygmies once spoke their own language(s), but that, through living in symbiosis with other Africans in prehistorical times, they adopted languages belonging to these two families."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The linguistic evidence that such languages existed include <a href="/wiki/Mbenga_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Mbenga language">Mbenga</a> forest vocabulary which is shared by the neighbouring Ubangian-speaking <a href="/wiki/Baka_language" title="Baka language">Baka</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bantu_languages" title="Bantu languages">Bantu</a>-speaking <a href="/wiki/Aka_people" title="Aka people">Aka</a> (though not by the <a href="/wiki/Mbuti_people" title="Mbuti people">Mbuti</a>, and this connection is not ancient) and the <a href="/wiki/Rimba_language" title="Rimba language">Rimba</a> dialect of <a href="/wiki/Punu_language" title="Punu language">Punu</a> which may contain a core of non-Bantu vocabulary.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been postulated that ancestral speakers may have been part of a complex of non-Pygmoid languages of hunter-gatherer populations in Africa whose only surviving descendants today mostly ring the rainforest.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A common hypothesis is that African Pygmies are the direct descendants of the <a href="/wiki/Late_Stone_Age" title="Late Stone Age">Late Stone Age</a> <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunter-gatherer</a> peoples of the central <a href="/wiki/African_rainforest" class="mw-redirect" title="African rainforest">African rainforest</a> who were partially absorbed or displaced by later immigration of agricultural peoples and adopted their <a href="/wiki/Central_Sudanic_languages" title="Central Sudanic languages">Central Sudanic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ubangian_languages" title="Ubangian languages">Ubangian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bantu_languages" title="Bantu languages">Bantu languages</a>. While there is a scarcity of excavated archaeological sites in Central Africa that could support this hypothesis,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> genetic studies have shown that Pygmy populations possess ancient divergent <a href="/wiki/Human_Y-chromosome_DNA_haplogroup" title="Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup">Y-DNA lineages</a> (especially haplogroups <a href="/wiki/Haplogroup_A_(Y-DNA)" title="Haplogroup A (Y-DNA)">A</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haplogroup_B-M60" title="Haplogroup B-M60">B</a>) in high frequencies in contrast to their neighbours (who possess mostly <a href="/wiki/Haplogroup_E-M2" title="Haplogroup E-M2">haplogroup E</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some 30% of the Aka language is not Bantu, and a similar percentage of the Baka language is not Ubangian. Much of this vocabulary is botanical, and deals with honey-collecting or is otherwise specialized for the forest, and much of it is shared between the two western Pygmy groups. It has been proposed that this is the remnant of an independent western Pygmy (Mbenga or "Baaka") language. However, this split was only reconstructed to the 15th century, so there is no reason to think that it is ancient.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Roger_Blench" title="Roger Blench">Roger Blench</a> (1999)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> argues that the Pygmies are not descended from residual hunter-gatherer groups, but rather are offshoots of larger neighboring ethnolinguistic groups that had adopted forest subsistence strategies. None of the Pygmy peoples live in the deep forest without trade with agricultural 'patrons'. Blench argues that Pygmies are a deeply established caste, like <a href="/wiki/Blacksmiths_of_western_Africa" title="Blacksmiths of western Africa">blacksmiths</a>, and that there was no original Pygmy race or language. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Peoples_and_languages">Peoples and languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Peoples and languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pygmy_languages_(Bahuchet).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Pygmy_languages_%28Bahuchet%29.png/400px-Pygmy_languages_%28Bahuchet%29.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Pygmy_languages_%28Bahuchet%29.png/600px-Pygmy_languages_%28Bahuchet%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Pygmy_languages_%28Bahuchet%29.png/800px-Pygmy_languages_%28Bahuchet%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1253" data-file-height="687" /></a><figcaption>Distribution of Pygmy languages according to Bahuchet. Green are Bantu, red are Central Sudanic, and purple are Ubangian. <a href="/wiki/Southern_Twa" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Twa">Southern Twa</a> is not shown.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pygmy_peoples_(Hewlett_%26_Fancher).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Pygmy_peoples_%28Hewlett_%26_Fancher%29.png/400px-Pygmy_peoples_%28Hewlett_%26_Fancher%29.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Pygmy_peoples_%28Hewlett_%26_Fancher%29.png/600px-Pygmy_peoples_%28Hewlett_%26_Fancher%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Pygmy_peoples_%28Hewlett_%26_Fancher%29.png/800px-Pygmy_peoples_%28Hewlett_%26_Fancher%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1253" data-file-height="687" /></a><figcaption>Modification by Hewlett and Fancher. Bofi is added in the west, and Nsua in the east.</figcaption></figure> <p>There are over a dozen attested Pygmy peoples<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> numbering at least 350,000 in the <a href="/wiki/Congo_Basin" title="Congo Basin">Congo Basin</a>. The best known are the <b><a href="/wiki/Mbenga_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Mbenga people">Mbenga</a></b> (Aka and Baka) of the western Congo Basin who speak <a href="/wiki/Bantu_languages" title="Bantu languages">Bantu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ubangian_languages" title="Ubangian languages">Ubangian languages</a>; the <b><a href="/wiki/Mbuti" class="mw-redirect" title="Mbuti">Mbuti</a></b> (Efe <i>et al.</i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Ituri_Rainforest" title="Ituri Rainforest">Ituri Rainforest</a>, who speak Bantu and <a href="/wiki/Central_Sudanic_languages" title="Central Sudanic languages">Central Sudanic languages</a>, and the <b><a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes_Twa" title="Great Lakes Twa">Twa</a></b> of the <a href="/wiki/African_Great_Lakes" title="African Great Lakes">Great Lakes</a>, who speak Bantu <a href="/wiki/Rwanda-Rundi" title="Rwanda-Rundi">Rwanda-Rundi</a>. All attested Pygmy peoples speak languages from these three language families, and only three peoples, the Aka, Baka, and Asua, have their own language. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bedzan">Bedzan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Bedzan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Bedzan_people" title="Bedzan people">Medzan (Bedzan)</a></b> live in Cameroon not far from the Nigerian border. They speak a dialect of <a href="/wiki/Tikar_language" title="Tikar language">Tikar</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Bantoid_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Bantoid language">Bantoid language</a>. </p> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 400</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mbenga">Mbenga</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mbenga"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Aka_people" title="Aka people">Aka</a></b> of the <a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic" title="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Congo" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Congo">Republic of Congo</a> speak <a href="/wiki/Aka_language" title="Aka language">Aka (Yaka)</a> which is a Bantu language close to <a href="/wiki/Lingala_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Lingala language">Lingala</a>. The <i>Benzele Aka</i> are well known for their music.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 30–50,000</dd> <dd><i>Miyaka (N Gabon, Bantu), Luma (N Gabon, Bantu)</i> appear to be Aka (Benzele) groups.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Baka_people_(Cameroon_and_Gabon)" title="Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon)">Baka</a></b> (<abbr title="also known as">a.k.a.</abbr> Ngombe) of Cameroon and <a href="/wiki/Gabon" title="Gabon">Gabon</a> speak closely related <a href="/wiki/Ubangian_languages" title="Ubangian languages">Ubangian languages</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ngbaka_languages" title="Ngbaka languages">Ngbaka</a> branch: <a href="/wiki/Baka_language" title="Baka language">Baka</a> proper, <a href="/wiki/Ganzi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ganzi language">Ganzi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gundi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Gundi language">Gundi</a> <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">AKA</span></span> Ngondi.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 30–40,000</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>In the Central African Republic north of the Aka are a group who speak the language of their neighbors, <b><a href="/wiki/Bofi_language" title="Bofi language">Bofi</a></b>, which is a language of the <a href="/wiki/Gbaya_languages" title="Gbaya languages">Gbaya</a> branch.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 3,000</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Gyele_people" title="Gyele people">Gyele</a></b> (a.k.a. <b>Kola</b> or <b>Koya</b>) are the westernmost Pygmies, living in southern Cameroon near the coast, and in <a href="/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea" title="Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a> on the coast. They speak two dialects of the Bantu <a href="/wiki/Mvumbo_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Mvumbo language">Mvumbo language</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 4,000</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Kola_people" title="Kola people">Kola</a></b> (a.k.a. <b>Koya</b>) of Congo and northwestern Gabon speak a Bantu language, <a href="/wiki/Ngom_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ngom language">Ngom</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 2,600</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Bongo_people_(Gabon)" title="Bongo people (Gabon)">Bongo</a></b>, or Akoa, of southern Gabon speak several Bantu languages, including <a href="/wiki/Tsogo_language" title="Tsogo language">Tsogo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nzebi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Nzebi language">Nzebi</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Teke_language" title="West Teke language">West Teke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Punu_language" title="Punu language">Punu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lumbu_language" title="Lumbu language">Lumbu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Myene_language" title="Myene language">Myene</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaningi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaningi language">Kaningi</a>, and perhaps others such as <a href="/wiki/Yasa_language" title="Yasa language">Yasa</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (June 2011)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The <a href="/wiki/Rimba_language" title="Rimba language">Punu dialect of the Irimba</a>, however, may have a non-Bantu core.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 3,000</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mbuti">Mbuti</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mbuti"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Ef%C3%A9_people" title="Efé people">Efé</a></b> speak the Central Sudanic language <a href="/wiki/Lese_language" title="Lese language">Lese</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 10,000?</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Asoa_people" title="Asoa people">Asoa</a></b> speak their own Central Sudanic language (<a href="/wiki/Asoa_language" title="Asoa language">Asoa</a>), related to <a href="/wiki/Mangbetu_language" title="Mangbetu language">Mangbetu</a>, the language of one of their patrons.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 10,000?</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Kango_people" title="Kango people">Kango</a></b> (a.k.a. Sua) speak the Bantu language <a href="/wiki/Bila_language" title="Bila language">Bila</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 26,000?</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Twa">Twa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Twa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The various <a href="/wiki/Twa_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Twa peoples">Twa populations</a> all speak Bantu languages. </p> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nsua_people&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nsua people (page does not exist)">Nsua</a></b> of <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a> speak Bantu.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (July 2011)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 1,000</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes_Twa" title="Great Lakes Twa">Great Lakes Twa</a></b> of the Great Lakes (Rwanda, Burundi, eastern D.R. Congo, southern Uganda) speak <a href="/wiki/Rundi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Rundi language">Rundi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kiga_language" title="Kiga language">Kiga</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 10,000</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Mongo_Twa" title="Mongo Twa">Mongo Twa</a></b> or <b>Ntomba Twa</b> (<i>Cwa</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[tʃwa]</a></span>) of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Tumba" title="Lake Tumba">Lake Tumba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lake_Mai-Ndombe" title="Lake Mai-Ndombe">Lake Mai-Ndombe</a> of western D.R. Congo, speak several varieties of <a href="/wiki/Mongo_language" title="Mongo language">Mongo</a> (Konda, <a href="/wiki/Ntomba_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ntomba language">Ntomba</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lia_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Lia language">Lia</a>), which are either divergent dialects or closely related languages.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>Population: 14,000</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Kasai_Twa" class="mw-redirect" title="Kasai Twa">Kasai Twa</a></b> or <b>Kuba Twa</b> (<i>Cwa</i>) of <a href="/wiki/Kasai_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Kasai region">Kasai</a> (central D.R. Congo) speak <a href="/wiki/Bushong_language" title="Bushong language">Bushong</a>.</li> <li>The <b><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mbote_Twa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mbote Twa (page does not exist)">Mbote Twa</a></b> (Bambote) northwest of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Tanganyika" title="Lake Tanganyika">Lake Tanganyika</a> speak a <a href="/wiki/Guthrie_classification_of_Bantu_languages#Zone_D" title="Guthrie classification of Bantu languages">D20</a> language.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Upemba_Twa" class="mw-redirect" title="Upemba Twa">Upemba Twa</a></b> or <b>Luba Twa</b> (<i>Cwa</i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Upemba_Depression" title="Upemba Depression">Upemba Depression</a> speak <a href="/wiki/Luba-Katanga" class="mw-redirect" title="Luba-Katanga">Luba-Katanga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hemba_language" title="Hemba language">Hemba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Songe_language" title="Songe language">Songe</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Taabwa_language" title="Taabwa language">Taabwa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Bangweulu_Batwa" title="Bangweulu Batwa">Bangweulu Twa</a></b> of <a href="/wiki/Bangweulu_Swamps" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangweulu Swamps">Bangweulu Swamps</a>, Zambia, speak <a href="/wiki/Bemba_language" title="Bemba language">Bemba</a>.</li> <li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Lukanga_Twa" title="Lukanga Twa">Lukanga Twa</a></b> of the <a href="/wiki/Lukanga_Swamp" title="Lukanga Swamp">Lukanga Swamp</a>, Zambia, speak <a href="/wiki/Lenje_language" title="Lenje language">Lenje</a>.</li> <li>The <b><a href="/wiki/Kafwe_Twa" title="Kafwe Twa">Kafwe Twa</a></b> of the <a href="/wiki/Kafue_Flats" title="Kafue Flats">Kafue Flats</a>, Zambia, speak <a href="/wiki/Tonga_language_(Zambia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tonga language (Zambia)">Tonga</a>.</li> <li>The Twa of Angola live among the Ngambwe, Havakona, Zimba and <a href="/wiki/Himba_people" title="Himba people">Himba</a>, and presumably speak their languages.</li></ul> <p>Physically, these southern Twa do not differ from their Bantu neighbors, but have a similar subservient position to their agricultural neighbors as the forest Pygmies. They may be remnant <a href="/wiki/Khoisan" title="Khoisan">Khoisan</a> populations; the <a href="/wiki/Ila_people" title="Ila people">Ila</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tonga_people_(Zambia_and_Zimbabwe)" title="Tonga people (Zambia and Zimbabwe)">Tonga</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lenje_people" title="Lenje people">Lenje</a> of Zambia, and the <a href="/wiki/Chewa_people" title="Chewa people">Chewa</a> of Malawi, for example, believe them to be aboriginal peoples, and trace sacred places to them, but Blench suggests that they may have instead migrated from the forest with the Bantu, and were later conflated with aboriginal populations in legend.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most complete account of Pygmy languages is found in Serge Bahuchet (1993) <i>Histoire d'une civilisation forestière</i>, volume 2. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Generally speaking; those who are not particularly short, such as the Babongo and Bedzan, are sometimes distinguished as "pygmoid".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apart from those who live in the savannah or mixed terrain, such as the Bofi and Bedzan.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There are other, undocumented hunter-gatherer forest peoples such as the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mbati_people&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mbati people (page does not exist)">Mbati</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolimba_people&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bolimba people (page does not exist)">Bolimba</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic" title="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a>, and there are thought to be more in the two Congos and in <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angola</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Holoholo_language" title="Holoholo language">Holoholo</a> is in approximately the right location</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_Pygmy_languages&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ruhlen, Merritt. <i>The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue</i>. 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