Crossword clues for bantu
bantu
- Popular South African language group
- Native African
- Like "banjo," "bongo," and "marimba"
- Language that gave us "gumbo"
- Language group that includes Zulu and Swahili
- Group of African languages
- Zulu's language group
- Zulu or Kikuyu
- Zulu or Hutu
- Zanzibar denizen
- Xhosa, for example
- Xhosa and Zulu's language group
- Talk of Tanzania
- Swazi, e.g
- Swahili's subfamily
- Swahili's family
- Swahili, e.g
- Swahili tongue
- Swahili language classification
- Shona's language group
- Original source of "gumbo" and "goober"
- Major African language
- Linguistic group that includes Zulu
- Like "marimba" and "basenji"
- Language-group name meaning people
- Language that gives us "banjo" and "gumbo"
- Language heard in Tanzania
- Language group that gave us "banjo" and "gumbo"
- Language group of central Africa
- Language group including Shona and Swahili
- Language family that includes Xhosa and Zulu
- Language family of Africa
- Language family including Swahili, Xhosa and Zulu
- Language family from which "zombie" originates
- Language family common in southern Cameroon
- Kaffir, e.g
- It includes Zulu
- Grouping containing Swahili and Zulu
- Family of African languages
- Equatorial African
- Congolese, e.g
- Certain African tribe member
- Central and southern African people
- African tribal group
- African source of "gumbo"
- African linguistic group
- African language from which the word "chimpanzee" comes
- Swahili and related tongues
- African tribesman
- Swahili's language group
- African language grouping
- Language group including Zulu
- Language group that includes Xhosa
- Congo native
- Zulu, for one
- African language family
- Swazi, e.g.
- Zulu's group
- Language from which "gumbo" comes
- Congolese, e.g.
- Source of the words "mamba" and "chimpanzee"
- Zulu, e.g.
- A family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
- A member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
- Xhosa's linguistic family
- African tongue
- Luanda language
- African tribe member
- Language spoken in Malawi
- Kaffir, e.g.
- People of southern Africa
- Equatorial African group
- Swahili or Zulu, e.g
- Group of widely spoken languages of southern Africa
- Censor second person using French language
- Family of southern African languages
- Language group that includes Swahili
- Language group of southern Africa
- Language group of Zulu
- African native
- African people
- Zulu or Swahili
- Language of southern Africa
- Southern African
- Xhosa's language group
- Swahili's language family
- South African tongue
- Congo lingo
- Congo language
- Zulu, e.g
- Zulu language group
- Zanzibar native
- Southern Africa language
- South African language group
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bantu \Ban"tu\, prop. n. A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person; or as in Watusi.
2. the family of languages spoken by the Bantu people (definition 1).
Bantu \Ban"tu\ 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
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1862, applied to south African language group in the 1850s by German linguist Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (1827-1875), from native Ba-ntu "mankind," from ba-, plural prefix, + ntu "a man, person." Bantustan in a South African context is from 1949.
Wikipedia
Bantu may refer to:
- Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages
- Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language
- Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity, a youth activism group in the 1960s
BANTU is a 13-piece band based in Lagos, Nigeria. Their music is a fusion of Afrobeat, Hiphop, Afrofunk, Highlife music and Yoruba music. The group features multi-instrumentalists and singers who perform as a collective.
Usage examples of "bantu".
But they are trapped in and moulded by human environment as certainly and implacably as your Assamese girl was trapped among the wolves or your Bantu boy among the baboons.
Besides these primitive races there are the dark-skinned negroids of Bantu stock, commonly known in their tribal groups as Kaffirs, Zulu, Bechuana and Damara, which are again subdivided into many lesser groups.
In the more or less plateau country included within these geographical limits, the Bantu dialects are of an archaic type, and to the present writer it has seemed as though one of them, Kibemba or Kiwemba, came near to the original form of the Bantu mother-language, though not nearer than the interesting Subiya of southern Barotseland.
Through dialects spoken on the west and north of Tanganyika, these languages of North Eastern Rhodesia and northern Nyasaland and of the Kafukwe basin are connected with the Bantu languages of Uganda.
Their language today was basically a corruption of English, although it included much of the noncommon languages of the early settlers, including Hindi, Urdu, Ibo, Arabic, Amharic, Bantu, and Flemish, to name some of them.
The Bantu races, however, exhibit in some parts signs of Hottentot or Bushman intermixture, and there are legends in some mountain districts, especially Mount Mlanje, of the former existence of unmixed Bushman tribes, while Bushman stone implements are found at the south end of Tanganyika.
Big King thanked him, and the little procession moved on to where yet another cook was filling a half-gallon jug of thick, gruel-like, mildly alcoholic Bantu beer from one of the multiple spiggots beneath the thousand-gallon tank.
Bantu, who only probably arrived in the area about AD 300 suddenly conceive of a brilliant prospecting talent which enabled them to locate the metal lodes where not a scrap of it showed in the ore as visible gold or copper?
According to Bantu lore those of us with club feet, albino pigmentation, squint eyes, and humped backs are blessed by the spirits and endowed with physic powers.
I immediately recognized two of the young Bantu assistants from the Institute, and one of the girls.
Timothy could not reply, his Bantu accent was too thick for deception.
The three Bantu ground crew sat on one of the bunks across the room, looking lost and unhappy.
I have a photograph, taken by one of the Bantu foremen who thought us all mad.
The vast Bantu migrations have begun and now the concern of the Gry-Lion is to dam the flood southwards and his legions march constant patrol upon the northern border.
From what I could hear he was repeating his conviction as to the medieval age and Bantu origin of the central African ruin system, and was lightly and amusingly debunking my own writings.