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Bantu   /bˈæntu/   Listen
Bantu

noun
1.
A member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa.
2.
A family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent.  Synonym: Bantoid language.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture.



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"Bantu" Quotes from Famous Books



... Akka, Doko, Tiki- Tiki, Wambilikimo ("two-cubit men"), the stunted race that share the central regions of Intertropical Africa with the abnormally tall peoples who speak dialects of the Great South African tongue, miscalled the "Bantu." Hole makes the Pygmies "monkeys," a word we have borrowed from the Italians (monichio a monoape) and quotes Ptolemy, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton


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