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Bantu languages(encyclopedia)
Bantu peoples(encyclopedia)

Bantu (iou)



Bantu adjective & noun. [ban'tu:, 'bantu:] M19.
[In certain Bantu langs., pl. of -ntu person.]
(Designating, of or pertaining to) a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken extensively in equatorial and southern Africa. Also (now racially offensive), (of or pertaining to, a member of) the family of peoples speaking these languages.
Bantustan [-'st¨»:n, -'stan] noun (S. Afr. colloq.) [-stan as in Hindustan etc.] Hist. an area reserved for members of a particular ethnic or linguistic group M20.