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Bantu

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1. Bantu - Noun

2. Bantu - Adjective

Meaning

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

of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture

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the Bantu population of Sierra Leone Source: Internet

About 1.5% of black South Africans (600,000 people) speak it as their first language. citation Large numbers of speakers of Bantu languages and English -speaking South Africans also speak it as their second language. Source: Internet

Age-grade regimental system Age-grade groupings of various sorts were common in the Bantu tribal culture of the day, and indeed are still important in much of Africa. Source: Internet

A historical reconstruction of West Sudanic was published in 1927, and in his 1935 'Charakter und Einteilung der Sudansprachen' he conclusively established the relationship between Bantu and West Sudanic. Source: Internet

Africa * Bantu -speaking people migrate into south-west Uganda from Northeastern Africa. Source: Internet

Ancient history At some stage during their migration south from a tertiary dispersal area Bantu speaking peoples came to settle the lands that now make up Lesotho as well as a more extensive territory of fertile lands that surround modern day Lesotho. Source: Internet

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