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Bantu

UK/ˈbæntu/ US/ˈbæntu/ uncommon
adjective (1) noun (2)

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”

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

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Origin

Borrowed from Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.

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