Bantu

名词 bantu:

1. a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
2. a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
   同义词：Bantoid language

形容词 bantu:

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

Ban.tu

n.（名词）
【复数】 Bantu 或 Ban.tus
A member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of central and southern Africa.
班图人：语言上相关联的中部和南部非洲的大量群族中的任何一员
A group of over 400 closely related languages spoken in central, east-central, and southern Africa, belonging to the South Central subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family and including Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Zulu, and Xhosa.
班图语：由400多种密切相关的语言组成的一类语言，使用于非洲中部、中东部和南部，属尼日尔－刚果语系的中南部亚类，包括斯瓦西里语、金亚瓦达语、基隆迪语、祖鲁语及科萨语

来源：
From Proto-Bantu *bantu [people]
源自 原始班图语 *bantu [人]
ba- [pl. human pref.]
ba- [人的复数的前缀]
ntu [entity]
ntu [实体]

【引伸】
Ban.tu
adj.（形容词）