Bantu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.
The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Bantu Bantus

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

Bantu languages Bantu ethnic groups

Semi-Bantu

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