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Bantus

Variant of Bantu

noun

  1. a group of more than 200 languages belonging to the Niger-Congo language subfamily, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu
  2. pl. Bantus or Bantu a member of any of the Bantu-speaking peoples living throughout the S half of the African continent

adjective

of the Bantus or their languages or cultures

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