Bantu

[bæn'tu:]

Definition

(noun.) a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent.

(noun.) a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa.

(adj.) of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; 'the Bantu population of Sierra Leone' .

Editor: Lois--From WordNet

Definition

n. a native name sometimes applied to the South African family of languages and the peoples speaking these including Kaffirs and Zulus Bechuans and the peoples from the Hottentot country to the Gulf of Guinea.

Typed by Blanche