Definitions for Bantu

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Bantu Ban·tu

Spelling: [ban-too]

IPA: /ˈbæn tu/

Bantu is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in Bantu (abntu).

Definitions for Bantu

noun

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.

Examples for Bantu

To the south of the Congo the various Bantu tribes are still little known.

Throughout this entire Bantu division the prefix U means a country.

Mr. Frazer does not, of course, adopt the Bantu myth as settling the question.

But in most of the Bantu tribes this totem idea does not exist as a worship.

Writing of a Bantu tribe, M. Jounod says, Most often taboos are inexplicable.

The languages of the various Bantu tribes have strong affinities.

This conception is, as far as I know, constant in both Negro and Bantu.

Montenay called up the head Bantu and put some questions to him.

They will be the schools of Bantu, Berber, Sudanese and all the other peoples of the land.

As the Bantu vary in aspect, so do they also in intelligence.