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Bantu

Bantu Meaning & Definition
Bantu Definition And Meaning

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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