Bantoid language

Definitions of Bantoid language
  1. noun
    a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
    synonyms: Bantu
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    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
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    Niger-Congo
    a family of African language spoken in west Africa
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