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Bantu

//ˈbæntu// noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language. countable
  2. 2
    a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent wordnet
  3. 3
    The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. uncountable
  4. 4
    a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.

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