BantUGent stands for a transdisciplinary approach to the past and present of Bantu languages, speech communities and their (im)material worlds, both in Africa and the diaspora.
Our research starts from the data-driven study of language and cultural heritage and relies on methods and theoretical insights from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, (art) history, botany, zoology, genetics, etc.
Within Bantu linguistics, our centre of gravity, we focus on historical and comparative linguistics, language contact, language documentation and description, and corpus linguistics and lexicography.