ALL meanings of bantu
Ban·tu
B b - adjective bantu Bantu means belonging or relating to a group of peoples in central and southern Africa. This use could cause offence. 4
- adjective bantu Bantu languages belong to a group of languages spoken in central and southern Africa. This use could cause offence. 3
- noun bantu 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 3
- noun bantu a Black speaker of a Bantu language 3
- adjective bantu denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of peoples or to any of their languages 3
- noun bantu a group of more than 200 languages belonging to the Niger-Congo language subfamily, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu 3
- noun bantu a member of any of the Bantu-speaking peoples living throughout the S half of the African continent 3
- adjective bantu of the Bantus or their languages or cultures 3
- noun plural bantu a member of any of several peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa. 1
- noun plural bantu 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. 1
- adjective bantu of, relating to, or characteristic of Bantu or the Bantu peoples. 1
- noun bantu member of African tribe 1
- adjective bantu relating to Bantu people 1
- adjective bantu relating to Bantu language 1