Bantu languages
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About 1.5% of black South Africans (600,000 people) speak it as their first language. citation Large numbers of speakers of Bantu languages and English -speaking South Africans also speak it as their second language.
All Bantu languages have a noun class specifically for humans (sometimes including other animate beings).
Another question is the branches of the Bantu languages which they spoke.
Apart from Dahalo, Damin, and many of the Bantu languages (Yeyi and Xhosa being exceptions), 'click' languages have glottalized clicks.
Classes 6 and 10 are inherited as polyplural classes by most surviving Bantu languages, but many languages have developed new polyplural classes that are not widely shared by other languages.
During his tenure Doke developed and promoted a method of linguistic analysis and description of the Bantu languages that was based upon the structure of these languages.