Meaning | A family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent. |
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Synonym | Bantoid language |
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Narrower | ChiMwini | A Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia |
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Chichewa | The Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa |
Chishona | A Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe |
Fang | A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon |
Gikuyu | A Bantu language spoken in western Kenya |
Giriama | A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya |
Herero | A Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola |
Kamba | A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba in Kenya |
Kichaga, Chaga, Chagga | A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania |
Kinyarwanda | A Bantu language |
Kiswahili | A Bantu language |
Kongo | The Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests / forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola |
LuGanda | The Bantu language of the Buganda people |
Luba, Tshiluba | A Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo |
Luyia | A Bantu language |
Mashi | A Bantu language |
Mwera | A Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania |
Nguni | A group of southern Bantu languages |
Nyamwezi | A Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania |
Pokomo | A Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa |
Shona | A Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe |
Sotho | Any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho |
Swahili | The most widely spoken Bantu languages |
Tonga | The language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia) |
Umbundu | A Bantu language spoken in Angola |
Broader | Niger-Congo | A family of African language spoken in west Africa |
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Spanish | bantú, lengua bantú |
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Catalan | bantu |
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Adjectives | Bantoid | relating to or designating languages that possess characteristics / characteristics of Bantu / Bantu |
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Bantu | of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture |
Bantu-speaking | of or relating to people who speak Bantu |