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bantus's Usage Examples:

The natives are nearly all Ama-Swazi Bantus, commonly called Swazis, and are closely allied to the Zulus.

The Bantus or Kaffirs (q.v.), as they were universally called, then held all the coast-lands between Delagoa Bay and the Great Fish River, and for many years they were strong enough to bar the further progress eastward of the white races.

As already stated, the Bantus, like the Europeans, were invaders of South Africa, and the meeting of these rival invaders was the cause of many bloody conflicts.

The great majority of the coloured inhabitants are Bantus of pure blood, but the total coloured population includes in the Cape province 298,334 persons of mixed blood (chiefly white and Hottentot) and in Natal 100,918 Asiatics.

The majority of the inhabitants appear to have been members of the Bechuana division of the Bantus, but in the valleys of the - Orange and Vaal were Korannas and other Hottentots, and in the Drakensberg and on the western border lived numbers of Bushmen.

The most important group of the Bantus is the Wanyamwezi (see UNYAMwEZI),divided into many tribes.

The Bantu tribes are in general peaceful agriculturists, though the Bantus of recent immigration retain the warlike instincts of the Zulus.

In all there were, in 1904, 135,042 Bantus in the country born elsewhere.

bantus's Meaning':

a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa

Synonyms:

Sotho, Gikuyu, Kiswahili, Giriama, Kichaga, Luba, Mwera, Nyamwezi, Kongo, Herero, Fang, Tonga, Chishona, Kamba, Niger-Congo, Chaga, Kinyarwanda, Pokomo, Bantoid language, ChiMwini, Shona, Nguni, Umbundu, Mashi, LuGanda, Tshiluba, Chagga, Chichewa, Swahili, Luyia,

Antonyms:

uncommunicative, taciturn, inarticulate,