Bantu

bantu bantú bàntú bǎntú English Etymology en bnt-pro *bàntʊ̀ people p, as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek. Pronunciation en /ˈbæntu/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Bantu.wav US Noun ~ s * en Q173371en countable A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language. en Q33146en uncountable The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Usage notes Black South Africans were at times officially called "Bantus" by the Apartheid regime. New legislation and documents from the South African government have replaced "Bantu" with "Black" due to the former word's derogatory connotations. Outside Southern Africa the term is still widely used as a term for the Bantu-speaking peoples. Coordinate terms South-Africa en Asian, en black/en Black, en Coloured, en white/en White Derived terms en Bantoid Bantologist Bantuist Bantuization Bantuize Bantuness Proto-Bantu Semi-Bantu Bantufication Translations member of the ethnic group Polish: pl Bantu m language family Afrikaans: af Bantoe, af Sintoe Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 班圖語支 Bāntú yǔzhī Danish: da bantu Dutch: nl Bantoe n Finnish: fi bantu Galician: gl bantú German: de Bantu n, de Bantu-Sprachfamilie f Japanese: ja バントゥー Norwegian: Bokmål: nb bantu m Nynorsk: nn bantu m Polish: pl bantu n Russian: ru банту m Spanish: es bantú See also Bantu languages Bantu Bantu ethnic groups Anagrams en abntu tabun en Language families German Pronunciation de De-Bantu.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun n,-:s Bantu language family Declension n,-:s.sg Noun m,-:s,-:s Bantu speaker male or of unspecified gender Declension m,-:s,-:s Noun f,-:s female Bantu speaker Declension f,-:s Related terms de Bantusprache, de Bantu-Sprache de Bantuvolk, de Bantu-Volk Further reading Bantu_Bantu_Sprecher Bantu (Sprecher) Bantu_Bantu_Sprecherin Bantu (Sprecherin) Bantu_Sprache Bantu (Sprache) de Demonyms Language families Polish pl: Etymology pl; compare en Bantu, ultimately pl bnt-pro *bàntʊ̀. Pronunciation bantu Noun m-pr 1 en Bantu member of any of the Bantu tribes Derived terms pl adjective bantuski pl nouns bantustan bantu Further reading pl People