About The Word Bantu
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Bantu
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What's The Definition Of Bantu?
[n] a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
[n] a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa [adj] of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu population of Sierra Leone" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bantu: Bantoid language Related Terms | Find terms related to Bantu: See Also | African | Batswana | Bechuana | Chaga | Chagga | Chichewa | ChiMwini | Chishona | Fang | Gikuyu | Giriama | Kamba | Kichaga | Kinyarwanda | Kiswahili | Kongo | Luba | LuGanda | Luyia | Mashi | Mwera | Nguni | Niger-Congo | Nyamwezi | Pokomo | Sotho | Swahili | Tonga | Tswana | Umbundu Bantu In Webster's Dictionary \Ban"tu\, n.
A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes
occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes
include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras,
Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-,
Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix
Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this
prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person. -- {Ban"tu}, a.
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