The Great Lakes Bantu languages, also known as Lacustrine Bantu and Bantu zone J, are a group of Bantu languages

Bantu languages

The Bantu languages constitute a traditional sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages...

 of East Africa. They were recognized as a group by the Tervuren team, who posited them as an additional zone (zone J) to Guthrie's largely geographic classification of Bantu.

The languages according to Bastin, Coupez, & Mann (1999), with Sumbwa added per Nurse (2003), are:

• Gungu (E10)
• Bwari (Kabwari) (D50)
• Konzo (D40): Konjo, Nande
  Nande language
  Nande, also known as Ndandi and Yira, is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The Nande of Congo and the Konjo people of Uganda are a single ethnic group, which they call Yira . They trace their origins to the Ruwenzori Mountains between the two countries. The languages...
  
  
• Shi–Havu (D50): Hunde, Havu
  Havu language
  Havu or Haavu is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is very close to the Shi language....
  
  , Shi, Tembo, Nyindu
• Rwanda-Rundi
  Rwanda-Rundi
  Rwanda-Rundi or Ruanda-Rundi is a Bantu language, actually a dialect continuum, of Central Africa. Neighboring dialects are mutually intelligible, but more distant ones may not be. Two dialects, Kirundi and Kinyarwanda, have been standardized as official languages, of Burundi and Rwanda...
  
  (D60): Kinyarwanda, Kirundi
  Kirundi
  Kirundi, also known as Rundi, is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language spoken by some 8.7 million people in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa, as well as in Uganda. It is the official language of Burundi...
  
  , Fuliiro, Shubi
  Shubi language
  Shubi is a Bantu language spoken in by the Shubi people in north-western Tanzania. It is may use labiodental plosives , as phonemes, rather than as allophones of . Peter Ladefoged wrote:- External links :***...
  
  , Hangaza, Ha
  Ha language
  Ha, also known with the Bantu language prefix as Giha, Ikiha, or Kiha, is a Bantu language spoken by the Ha people of the Kigoma region of Tanzania which is closely related to the languages of Rwanda and Burundi; neighboring dialects are mutually intelligible with Kirundi.-External links:* * *...
  
  , Vinza
• Nyoro–Ganda (E10): Ganda, Nyankore, Nyoro
  Nyoro language
  The Nyoro language is a local language of the Nyoro people of Uganda. It belongs to the Niger–Congo family, Benue–Congo subgroup, Bantu branch . Its Ethnologue code is NYR, ISO 639-2: nyo. It probably has two dialects: Orunyoro and Rutagwenda. A standardized orthography was established in 1947....
  
  , Tooro, Hema
  Hema language
  Hema is a Bantu language and one of three languages spoken by the Hema people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Hema is sometimes called Southern Hema in contrast to the unrelated language Lendu, Northern Hema....
  
  , Chiga, Soga, Gwere, Nyala
  Nyala dialect (Luhya)
  Nyala is a Luhya dialect spoken by the Nyala tribe of the Luhya people of Busia District in Kenya. It is spoken by 35 000 people....
  
   (Luhya), Ruli

(See Runyakitara language

Runyakitara language

The Kitara language, commonly known as Runyakitara, is a recent standardized form of four linguistically closely related languages of western Uganda:*Nyoro or Runyoro*Kiga or Rukiga...

, Nkore-Kiga)

• Haya–Jita (E20): Haya
  Haya language
  Haya is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Haya people of Tanzania, in the south and southwest coast of Lake Victoria. In 1991, the population of Haya speakers was estimated at 1,200,000 people .-References:...
  
  , Talinga-Bwisi
  Talinga-Bwisi language
  Talinga or Bwisi is a language spoken in the Uganda–Congo border region. It is called Talinga in DRC and Bwisi in Uganda.-Bibliography:* , Ethnologue report...
  
  , Zinza, Kerebe, Jita, Kwaya, Nyambo
• Masaba–Luhya (E30): Masaba
  Masaba language
  Masaba , sometimes known as Gisu after one of its dialects, is a Bantu language spoken by about 1,500,000 people in eastern Uganda in the administrative region of Bugisu on the border to Kenya. The language is closely related to, and mutually intelligible with Bukusu, spoken in western Kenya...
  
  –Bukusu
  Bukusu language
  Bukusu is a Luhya language from Bantu group spoken by the Bukusu people of western Kenya. It is one of the related languages of the Luhya people...
  
   (Luhya), Nyore (Luhya), Nyole (Luhya), Samia (Luhya)
• Logooli–Kuria (E40): Ngurimi, Ikizu, Suba
  Suba language
  The Suba language is the language of Kenya's Suba people. As the Suba number very few to begin with , and the majority have begun speaking Dholuo as their main language, Suba is on the verge of extinction. The remaining speakers are mostly elderly residents on the island of Mfangano...
  
  , Suba-Simbiti, Shashi, Kabwa, Singa, Ware, Logoli (Luhya), Idaxo-Isuxa-Tiriki (Luhya), Gusii
  Gusii language
  The Gusii language is a Bantu language spoken in the Kisii district in western Kenya,whose head-quarters is Kisii town, . It is spoken by the Gusii people, numbering about 1.5 million...
  
   (Kisii), Kuria
  Kuria language
  Kuria is spoken by the Kuria peoples of Northern Tanzania, with some speakers also residing in Kenya....
  
  , Zanaki
  Zanaki language
  Zanaki, Kizanaki, or Ikizanaki is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It is spoken by the Zanaki people of Musoma and was the first language of Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere....
  
  , Ikoma
• Sumbwa
  Sumbwa language
  Sumbwa is a Bantu language of Tanzania. It was once thought to be close to Sukuma, but that now appears to be a regional effect....
  
  (F20)

The codes in parentheses are Guthrie's original geographic classification.