Shum Laka is a site that was important to the diffusion of the people who were from what continent?
Bantu peoples Bantu peoples is used as a general label for the 300–600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages. They inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes region down to Southern Africa. Bantu is a major branch of the Niger–Congo language family spoken by most populations in Africa. There are about 650 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and "Ethnologue" counts 535 languages.
Judah ibn Kuraish Judah ibn Kuraish (Hebrew: יהודה אבן קריש‎ ‎ , Arabic: يهوذا بن قريش‎ ‎ ), was a North African Jewish grammarian and lexicographer. He was born at Tiaret in North Africa and flourished in the 9th century. While his grammatical works advanced little beyond his predecessors, he was the first in studying comparative philology in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. He recognized that the various Semitic languages are derived from one source and that although they are different in their development, they are subject to the same linguistic laws. Judah's grammatical researches were original, and he maintained his views regardless of the "Mishnah" and the "Talmud" so he has been erroneously considered a Karaite.