bantoid language
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1. a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | niger-congo, |
| definition | : | a family of African language spoken in west Africa (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | chichewa, |
| definition | : | the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | chimwini, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | chishona, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | fang, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | gikuyu, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | giriama, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | herero, |
| definition | : | a Banto language spoken by the Herero in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | kamba, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba in Kenya (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | chaga, chagga, kichaga, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | kinyarwanda, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | kiswahili, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | kongo, |
| definition | : | the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | luba, tshiluba, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | luganda, |
| definition | : | the Bantu language of the Buganda people; spoken in Uganda (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | luyia, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | mashi, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | mwera, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | nguni, |
| definition | : | a group of southern Bantu languages (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | nyamwezi, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | pokomo, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | shona, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | sotho, |
| definition | : | any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | umbundu, |
| definition | : | a Bantu language spoken in Angola (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | swahili, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | tonga, |
| definition | : | the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia) (noun.communication) |
| derivation | : | bantu, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | bantu, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture (adj.pert) |
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