Meanings of bantu languages in English

Yet the Swahili language, though peppered with Arabic loanwords, is closely akin to other Bantu languages.

Bantu languages can have more than ten.

Sir Harry attributes most of the higher cultural elements associated with the Bantu languages to the non-Negro invaders.

That's the inspiration behind the name and the logo, he says, adding that Njorku means elephant in many Bantu languages.

He had traded for skins in some barbarous district near the shore of Victoria Nyanza, and knew half a dozen Bantu languages.

That union of Austronesians and East Africans lives on today in Madagascar's basically Austronesian language, which contains loan words from coastal Kenyan Bantu languages.

The script is a 'featural syllabary' primarily used to write in Southern Bantu languages; and was developed by a group of linguists, programmers and designers.

The major portion of the book consists of illustrative vocabularies of 366 Bantu and 87 Semi- Bantu languages and dialects with an extensive bibliography.

But all those 500 Bantu languages are so similar to each other that they have been facetiously described as 500 dialects of a single language.