User:Metaknowledge/Bantu priorities

The numbers of speakers are extremely loose, and many are likely significantly inaccurate; complete data do not exist in most cases. They are simply a guide to how well the most spoken Bantu languages are represented on Wiktionary. Most of them badly need basic template infrastructure, tailored to that language's specific needs, and should have a minimum of 1000 lemmas. Languages with an asterisk have more than one principal standard, which complicates creating entries.

• Swahili: 180 million speakers, 9,805 lemmas
• Zulu: 27 million speakers, 2,858 lemmas
• Xhosa: 19 million speakers, 3,122 lemmas
• Rwanda-Rundi: 18 million speakers, 550 lemmas*
• Sotho: 14 million speakers, 666 lemmas*
• Tswana: 13 million speakers, 318 lemmas
• Tsonga: 13 million speakers, 355 lemmas
• Chichewa: 12 million speakers, 790 lemmas
• Shona: 11 million speakers, 449 lemmas
• Lingala: 10 million speakers, 606 lemmas
• Kikuyu: 7 million speakers, 1,135 lemmas
• Luganda: 7 million speakers, 48 lemmas

Other Niger-Congo priorities:

• Akan: 50 million speakers, 165 lemmas*
• Yoruba: 28 million L1 speakers, 4,794 lemmas
• Igbo: 24 million L1 speakers, 253 lemmas
• Fula: 24 million L1 speakers, 1,694 lemmas*
• Wolof: 15 million speakers, 710 lemmas