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Bantus

Bantus is the plural of Bantu.

Meaning of Bantu

Noun

Bantu (countable and uncountable, plural Bantus or Bantu)

  1. (countable) A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.
  2. (uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Questions about Bantus

What is Bantus the plural of?
Bantus is the plural of Bantu.

Words near Bantus in the dictionary

  1. Bantuize
  2. Bantuized
  3. Bantuizes
  4. Bantuizing
  5. Bantuness
  6. Bantus
  7. bantustan
  8. bantustans
  9. banty
  10. bantz
  11. Bantzes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bantus (page history and authors); Bantu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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