Bantu (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural Ban·tus, (especially collectively) Ban·tu.
  1. a member of any of several peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa.
  2. a grouping of more than 500 languages of central and southern Africa, as Kikuyu, Swahili, Tswana, and Zulu, all related within a subbranch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family.
adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Bantu or the Bantu peoples.
noun
  1. a group of languages of Africa, including most of the principal languages spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope, but excluding the Khoisan family: now generally regarded as part of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
  2. a Black speaker of a Bantu language
adjective
  1. denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of peoples or to any of their languages
Bantu (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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