Dictionary: Bantu   (băn'tū)

1. A member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of central and southern Africa.
2. A group of over 400 closely related languages spoken in central, east-central, and southern Africa, belonging to the South Central subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family and including Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Zulu, and Xhosa.

[From Proto-Bantu *bantu, people : *ba-, pl. human pref. + *-ntu, entity.]

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa

Meaning #2: a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
  Synonym: Bantoid language

The adjective Bantu has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture
  Pertains to noun: Bantu (meaning #1)

Bantu may refer to:

• Bantu expansion, a series of migrations of Bantu speakers
• Bantu languages
• Bantu people
• Bantustan, African land set aside for black Africans as part of apartheid

BANTU may refer to:

• Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity, a youth activism group in the 1960s

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bantufolket, bantustammen
adj. - bantu-

Nederlands (Dutch)
Bantoe (taal), Bantoe-

Français (French)
n. - (Ling) Bantou, Bantous
adj. - bantou

Deutsch (German)
n. - Bantu, (Negroide Gruppe in Mittel und Südafrika)
adj. - Bantu-

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γλώσσα ή διάλεκτος μπαντού
adj. - της γλωσσικής ομάδας μπαντού

Italiano (Italian)
bantu

Português (Portuguese)
n. - língua (f) dos Bantos
adj. - banto

Русский (Russian)
банту

Español (Spanish)
n. - bantú
adj. - bantú, perteneciente a tribu africana

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - bantuspråk, medlem av ett bantufolk
adj. - bantu-

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
班图人, 班图语, 班图系的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 班圖人, 班圖語
adj. - 班圖系的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 반투족[어]
adj. - 반투족[어]의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - バントゥー族, バントゥー語
adj. - バントゥー族の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شعوب البنتو او لغاتهم ( منهم الكفير والزولو) (صفه) ما يخص البنتو‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮באנטו (כושי), קבוצת שפות בחציה הדרומי של אפריקה‬
adj. - ‮באנטו (כושי)‬

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