NGUNI

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A group of southern Bantu languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Nguni" is a kind of...):

Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)

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

Matabele; Ndebele (a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu)

Swazi; Xhosa (a Bantu language closely related to Zulu)

Zulu (a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa)

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