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Bantu

DEFINITIONS OF: Bantu

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

“the Bantu population of Sierra Leone”

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

Synonyms:: Bantoid language

Types:: show 31 types...; hide 31 types...; Chichewa
the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa; ChiMwini
a Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia; Chishona
a Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe; Fang
a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon; Gikuyu
a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya; Giriama
a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya; Herero
a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola; Kamba
a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba in Kenya; Chaga, Chagga, Kichaga
a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania; Kinyarwanda
a Bantu language; Kiswahili
a Bantu language; Kongo
the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola; Luba, Tshiluba
a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo; LuGanda
the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda; Luyia
a Bantu language; Mashi
a Bantu language; Mwera
a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania; Nguni
a group of southern Bantu languages; Nyamwezi
a Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania; Pokomo
a Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa; Shona
a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe; Sotho
any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho; Umbundu
a Bantu language spoken in Angola; Swahili
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa; Tonga
the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia); Matabele, Ndebele
a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu; Swazi
a Bantu language closely related to Zulu; Xhosa
a Bantu language closely related to Zulu; Zulu
a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa; Basuto, Sesotho
the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; an official language of Lesotho; Sechuana, Setswana, Tswana
the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana

Type of:: Niger-Congo
a family of African language spoken in west Africa

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

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; Herero
a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola; Hutu
a member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and Burundi; Chiluba, Luba
a member of a Bantu people in southeastern Congo; Sotho
a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages; Batswana, Bechuana, Tswana
a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa; Tutsi, Watusi, Watutsi
a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi; Shona
a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe

Type of:: African
a native or inhabitant of Africa

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