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Bantu adj.

Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); as, Bantu languages.

Of or pertaining to the Bantu people (definition 1). "The Bantu population of Sierra Leone"

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Etymology of 'Bantu'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bantu" Quotes from Famous Books

... white man on brown, red, or black lands, will throw back in manner and instinct to the type originally bred there? Thus, a speech in the taal should carry the deep roll, the direct belly-appeal, the reiterated, cunning arguments, and the few simple metaphors of the prince of commercial orators, the Bantu. A New Zealander is said to speak from his diaphragm, hands clenched at the sides, as the old Maoris used. What we know of first-class Australian oratory shows us the same alertness, swift flight, and clean delivery as a thrown boomerang. ...

— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling

... violet shadow of his square hut inside the compound, squatted Zalu Zako. The lips and nose were nearer to the Aryan delicacy than the negroid bluntness; for the Wongolo, like the Wahima, are a mixed Bantu-Somali race. In colour his skin had the red of bronze rather than the blue of the negro, and the planes of his moulded chest were as light as the worn ivory bracelets upon his polished limbs. Broad in the shoulders he had almost the slender hips of a young girl and his carriage ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

Words linked to "Bantu" : Hutu, fang, Luba, Herero, Tshiluba, Nyamwezi, Batswana, Umbundu, Kamba, LuGanda, Pokomo, Tutsi, Watutsi, Swahili, Mashi, Gikuyu, Kiswahili, Tswana, Kinyarwanda, Kichaga, Chishona, Niger-Congo, Tonga, Watusi, ChiMwini, Bechuana, Nguni, Chagga, Chaga, Chiluba, Chichewa, Giriama, Bantoid language, Bantu-speaking, Kongo