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nouna family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
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nouna member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africatype of:
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of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture
Definition that contains bantu
- click a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
- fang a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
- hutu a member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and Burundi
- tutsi a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi
- zulu a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa
- swahili the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
- shona a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe
- shona a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe
- assegai the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa
- luba a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo