•The vernacular terms
that have stimulated the expenditure
of the most scholarly ink are those related
to proto-Bantu #ko[n]do.
•These are embedded in
languages in NW Bantu, but
also appear in Mande and Atlantic languages in the Guinea-Liberia region.
•It is assumed that the
occurrences in Mande, Atlantic. Kwa
and Gur languages are all borrowings
from Bantu and that this must have occurred
as a result of late Portuguese transfers of crops along the coast.