Bantu definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: of or ... one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu population of Sierra Leone" n 1: a member of any ... spoken in the southern half of the African continent [syn: Bantu, Bantoid language] Merriam Webster's noun (plural Bantu or Bantus) Etymology: ba-, a plural noun classifier + -ntu, noun base meaning “person” in several Bantu languages Date: 1862 1. a family of Niger-Congo languages ... of any of a group of African peoples who speak Bantu languages Oxford Reference Dictionary n. & adj. --n. (pl. same ...
Bantu-speaking definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: of or relating to people who speak Bantu; "the Bantu- speaking people of Africa" 2: able to communicate in Bantu
Bantu languages definitions Britannica Concise Family of perhaps close to 500 ... continent's westward bulge to its S tip. About 35 Bantu languages, incl. Kongo (Kikongo), Rundi (Kirundi), Rwanda (Kinyarwanda), Gikuyu (Kikuyu ... Zulu, and Xhosa, have a million or more speakers. The Bantu family belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the huge ... Niger-Congo language family. The best-known grammatical feature of Bantu languages is their division of nouns into classes (see gender ...
Bantu peoples definitions Britannica Concise Speakers of the close to 500 distinct Bantu languages, numbering more than 200 million, occupying almost the entire ... The classification is primarily linguistic, for the cultural patterns of Bantu-speakers are extremely diverse. Included in the group are the ...
... community of Negroid people in southern South Africa 3: a Bantu language closely related to Zulu Merriam Webster's noun Etymology ... a Xhosa person) Date: 1801 1. a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Eastern Cape province 2. a Bantu language of the Xhosas Oxford Reference Dictionary n. & adj. --n. 1 (pl. same or Xhosas) a member of a Bantu people of Cape Province, South Africa. 2 the Bantu language of this people, similar to Zulu. --adj. of or ...
... 000. Capital: Malabo. The majority of the mainland population are Bantu-speaking Fang people, with a minority of other Bantu-speaking tribes (see Bantu languages). The majority on Bioko are the Bubi, descendants of Bantu migrants from the mainland. Languages: Spanish, French (both official); pidgin ... and Bubi reached the mainland region in the 17th-cent. Bantu migrations. Equatorial Guinea was ceded by the Portuguese to the ...
... culture of the Shonas n 1: a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe 2: a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe Merriam Webster's noun (plural Shona ... 1895 1. a member of any of a group of Bantu peoples of Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique 2. the group of languages spoken by the Shona Britannica Concise Cluster of Bantu-speaking peoples living in E Zimbabwe and W Mozambique. Numbering ...
... community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa 3: a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa Merriam Webster ... the Zulu language Date: 1824 1. a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Natal 2. the Bantu language of the Zulus • Zulu adjective II. Date: 1952 — a ... of the most important members of the South African, or Bantu, family of languages, spoken partly in Natal and partly in ...
... r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely ... s??il coast Date: 1814 1. a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Zanzibar and the adjacent coast 2. a Bantu language that is a trade and governmental language over much ... Reference Dictionary n. (pl. same) 1 a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and adjacent coasts. 2 their language, used ...
... groups note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety ... BC, it was occupied by Arab and Indian traders and Bantu-speaking peoples by the 10th cent. AD. The Portuguese gained ...
... r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and Burundi Merriam Webster's noun (plural Hutu or Hutus) Etymology: Kinyarwanda & Kirundi (Bantu languages of East Africa) Date: 1952 a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi
... r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a member of a Bantu people in southeastern Congo [syn: Luba, Chiluba] 2: a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo [syn: Luba, Tshiluba] Britannica Concise Cluster of Bantu-speaking peoples who share a common political history surrounding the ...
Venda definitions Merriam Webster's I. noun Date: 1908 a Bantu language spoken by a people of Northern province, Republic of ... Africa capital Thohoyandou; granted independence 1979; abolished 1994 Britannica Concise Bantu-speaking people who inhabit the NE corner of S. Africa ... in 1994, as part of the newly created Northern province. Bantu-speaking people who inhabit the NE corner of S. Africa ...
... languages; "Sotho noun classifiers" n 1: a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and ... the Sotho languages 2: any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and ... languages and especially Sesotho b. a group of closely related Bantu languages of Lesotho, Botswana, and northern South Africa 2. a ...
... Kikuyu or Kikuyus) Date: 1894 1. a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Kenya 2. the Bantu language of the Kikuyu people Oxford Reference Dictionary n. & adj ... 1 a member of an agricultural Negro people, the largest Bantu-speaking group in Kenya. 2 the language of this people ...