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Bantu
[ ban-too ]
noun
- a member of any of several peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa.
- a grouping of more than 500 languages of central and southern Africa, as Kikuyu, Swahili, Tswana, and Zulu, all related within a subbranch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Bantu or the Bantu peoples.
Bantu
/ ˈbæntuː; bænˈtuː; ˈbɑːntʊ /
noun
- a group of languages of Africa, including most of the principal languages spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope, but excluding the Khoisan family: now generally regarded as part of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- taboo.-tu-tus a Black speaker of a Bantu language
adjective
- denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of peoples or to any of their languages
Usage
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDz-t noun adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Bantu1
Example Sentences
On a blistering summer day, Aduba quickly styled her hair in Bantu knots as she prepared to trudge to another round of back-to-back auditions, certain more nos were on the way.
The New York Times reported in May that it had received a set of emails, faxed from a toll-free number, in choppy Luganda, a Bantu language widely spoken in Uganda.
The New York Times reported that the thief wrote their message in Luganda, a Bantu language of Uganda.
He said he was based in Nigeria and his email was written in Luganda, a Bantu language spoken in Uganda.
It evolved from a mix of Yoruba, Fon and Bantu beliefs brought to what is now Brazil by enslaved West African people during the colonial expansion of the Portuguese empire, scholars said.
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