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bantu (n)

a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa

a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent

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bantu (a)

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

Webster

bantu (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 plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person.

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a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa, a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the

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The Bantu peoples are a diverse group of ethnicities inhabiting southern and central Africa.

Bantu languages are spoken by over 200 million people in Africa.

The Bantu expansion was a major population movement that occurred in Africa during the Iron Age.

Bantu-speaking people have a rich cultural heritage that includes pottery, weaving, and music.