Bantu
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.
Bantu (countable and uncountable, plural Bantus or Bantu)
Black South Africans were at times officially called "Bantus" by the Apartheid regime. New legislation and documents from the South African government have replaced "Bantu" with "Black" due to the former word's derogatory connotations. Outside Southern Africa the term is still widely used as a term for the Bantu-speaking peoples.
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Bantu n (proper noun, strong, genitive Bantu or Bantus)
Bantu m (strong, genitive Bantu or Bantus, plural Bantu or Bantus)
Bantu f (genitive Bantu, plural Bantu or Bantus)
Internationalism; compare English Bantu, ultimately Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀.
Bantu m pers (indeclinable)