Bantu

Meaning

Noun

  • A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.
  • A black South African.
  • The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Origin

  • From Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ ("people"), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.

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