Bantu Language and Migration

In this article it explains how languages managed to spread throughout the world, and specifically the Bantu had a major affect on how far they spreaded their culture. The Bantu language is known as to be related as the Germanic languages. Although people didn't have a clear understanding, they have knowledge that language would spread by large numbers of the people migrating, in which will impose it upon minority societies. The migration had begun in Nigeria, first coming to Cameroon, and later heading eastward, near the lower Congo. The certain date that the Bantu had spread was the 8th century, where in Zanzibar and the opposite coast, a Bantu language was spoken. The words had immediately been recorded by Arab travelers of the century. Example words that were derived from Bantu was "canoe, fishhook, goat, leader, and witch." It is interpreted that they were fishermen, cultivating African yams and palm trees. We can assume that this society and culture had been very advanced for the many discoveries and achievements they had. They had a governmental structure, like Mesopotamia but it derived from kinship and the leaders had been elders, showing everyone in the evil of witches and believing in spirits. They managed to get knowledge of the forest they lived around and were overcoming their enemies. Historians had interpreted that the way they managed to imply their language was through the same way Europeans managed to do to the Indians in the Americas. Due to the diseases they brought, it brought decline to the Indian population and they managed to settle and create  their culture. With the Bantu, something similar had occurred. Since Bantu had compact villages with non- Bantu speakers, they had intermarriage and it would also spread the language. This was the importance and how Bantu would spread through most of Africa.