Modern Bantu

Modern Bantu is an attempt to revive Proto-Bantu for modern use. Instead of attempting to fit the typology of modern Bantu languages or act as an auxiliary language, Modern Bantu is like other proto-language revival attempts.

Vowels
KiBantu has a 7 vowel system.

Consonants
Modern Bantu has 11 basic consonant sounds, with an additional 7 prenasalized sounds. There is one difference between the most commonly reconstructed version of Proto-Bantu and Modern Bantu: vowel-initial stems are allowed in Modern Bantu, while in the most commonly cited reconstructions these stems begin with /j/. This was because, in the vast majority of extant Bantu languages, these stems seem to lack initial vowels.
 * plain /l/ is realized [l] in all environments, but is placed in the obstruent row for historical reasons, and because it is realized as /ⁿd/ when prenasalized.
 * /s/ is realized as an alveolar [s] in all environments, but it is placed in the palatal column for historical reasons.

Orthography
The orthography of Modern Bantu mostly reflects the protoforms. Aside from the prenasalised sounds, there is one digraph: ⟨ny⟩ for /ɲ/. It is considered a separate letter in Modern Bantu. The vowels are also represented slightly strangely: /i/ and /u/ are written as ⟨i̧⟩ and ⟨u̧⟩ with cedillas, while /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ are written as regular ⟨i⟩ and ⟨u⟩; this is done for historical reasons.