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Bantu has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
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

3

A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.

Adjective
1

of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture

"the Bantu population of Sierra Leone"

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
African Niger-Congo
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
Herero Hutu Luba Sotho Tswana Tutsi Shona Chichewa ChiMwini Chishona Fang Gikuyu Giriama Kamba Kichaga Kinyarwanda Kiswahili Kongo LuGanda Luyia Mashi Mwera Nguni Nyamwezi Pokomo Umbundu Swahili Tonga
Rhyming Words
jantu pintu wintu montu chintu ubuntu nighantu papiamentu proto bantu vaticinium ex eventu
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