Bantu

n. 班图人, 班图语

发音

US /ˈbæntu/

词形变化

Bantus 复数 Bantus

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

    班图语支

    不可数 可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

African Niger-Congo

下位词 10

fang tonga Swahili Herero Shona Sotho Basuto Batswana Bechuana chaga

相关短语

Bantu knot Bantu knots

词源

Borrowed from Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.

来源：wiktionary