Bantu

noun (plural same or Bantus)

• 1a member of an extensive group of indigenous peoples of central and southern Africa.

• 2the group of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples.

  Bantu languages belong to the Niger-Congo language family, and there are more than 400 of them (with over 100 million speakers), of which Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu are the most important

adjective

• of or relating to the Bantu peoples or their languages.