Bantoid

Meaning

Adjective

Of or relating to a putative branch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family.

Origin

Bantu + -oid; first used by Krause in 1895 for languages that showed resemblances in vocabulary to Bantu.

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