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Congolesid
Similar Types Guinesid, Guineo Camerunian, West Congolesid, Mundu Mangbeto, Twa-Cwa, South Bantuid
Group Congolid
Distribution Map

Description

Widespread type of the Congo forest basin, common from Gabon to DR Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, and Zambia. Typical for Western and Northern Bantu speakers, e.g. Lingala, Tshiluba, Bapoto, Boa, Ngumba, Ba Soko, Mpongwe, Barotse, and related people, more mixed in Chokwe, Kordofanians, Zande, Kongo, etc.[1]

Physical Traits

Dark brown, sometimes light brown skin. Kinky, rarely peppercorn hair. Rather short, mesoskelic with an endomorph to mesomorph body. Meso- sometimes brachycephalic, orthocranic. Large, angular face with prominent cheekbones. (Hyper-)platyrrhine funnel-shaped nose with an extremely depressed root. Lips thinner than in Sudanids, body hair stronger. Occiput flat. Prognathous with a receding chin.



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