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Bantu   Listen
adjective
Bantu  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); as, Bantu languages.
2.
Of or pertaining to the Bantu people (definition 1). "The Bantu population of Sierra Leone"





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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


Words linked to "Bantu" :   Sotho, Kongo, Umbundu, Bechuana, Luba, Giriama, Tutsi, Watutsi, Watusi, Mwera, Kiswahili, Swahili, Mashi, LuGanda, Kamba, Bantu-speaking, Herero, Kinyarwanda, Nyamwezi, Niger-Congo


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