Central Bantu languages

Central Bantu
Savannah Bantu
Geographic distribution:	Central, East, and Southern Africa
Linguistic classification:	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Central Bantu
Subdivisions:	≈zones D–S Northeast Bantu Southern Bantu
Ethnologue code:	75-16

The Central Bantu or Savannah Bantu languages are those Narrow Bantu languages which fall outside Northwest Bantu. This generally means more-or-less zones D through S in Guthrie's geographic classification. They include most of the numerically important Bantu languages. The evidence for Central Bantu is lexical, and there is no evidence that it is historically valid.