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Bantu
[ ban-too ]
noun
- a member of any of several peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa.
- a grouping of more than 500 languages of central and southern Africa, as Kikuyu, Swahili, Tswana, and Zulu, all related within a subbranch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Bantu or the Bantu peoples.
Bantu
/ bænˈtuː; ˈbæntuː; ˈbɑːntʊ /
noun
- a group of languages of Africa, including most of the principal languages spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope, but excluding the Khoisan family: now generally regarded as part of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- taboo.-tu-tus a Black speaker of a Bantu language
adjective
- denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of peoples or to any of their languages
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- non-Bantu noun adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Bantu1
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Example Sentences
Another well-known picture represents the way in which the Bushmen steal cattle from a Bantu tribe.
The Bantu, for example, swears by the head of his father or the cap of his mother, as well as by the colour of his ox.
It should be superfluous to say that the Bantu myth cannot possibly throw any tight on the real origin of totemism.
The Bantu, ancestor-worshippers of great piety, find themselves saddled with sacred tribal Siboko; why, they know not.
In the Bantu languages, the principle of concord works very much as in Chinook.
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