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Meaning of BANTU

Pronunciation:  'bantoo

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
  2. [n]  a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
  3. [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"
 

BANTU is a 5 letter word that starts with B.

 

 Synonyms: Bantoid language
 
 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

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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