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BANTOID LANGUAGE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent

Synonyms:

Bantoid language; Bantu

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Bantoid language" is a kind of...):

Niger-Congo (a family of African language spoken in west Africa)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bantoid language"):

Tonga (the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia))

Swahili (the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa)

Umbundu (a Bantu language spoken in Angola)

Sotho (any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho)

Shona (a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe)

Pokomo (a Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa)

Nyamwezi (a Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania)

Nguni (a group of southern Bantu languages)

Mwera (a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania)

Mashi; Luyia (a Bantu language)

LuGanda (the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda)

Luba; Tshiluba (a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo)

Kongo (the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola)

Kiswahili; Kinyarwanda (a Bantu language)

Chaga; Chagga; Kichaga (a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania)

Kamba (a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba in Kenya)

Herero (a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola)

Giriama (a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya)

Gikuyu (a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya)

Fang (a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon)

Chishona (a Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe)

ChiMwini (a Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia)

Chichewa (the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa)

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