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Definition of Bantu-speaking
1. Adjective. Of or relating to people who speak Bantu. "The Bantu-speaking people of Africa"
2. Adjective. Able to communicate in Bantu.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bantu-speaking
Literary usage of Bantu-speaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The East Africa Protectorate by Charles Eliot (1905)
"... SOMALIS, AND bantu-speaking TRIBES IN a previous chapter on the Coast Lands
I have spoken of the Arabs and the part they have played in East Africa, ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"It is difficult to ascertain whence this name arose, but in its origin it appears
to have been applied to the bantu-speaking folk in the Elgon district. ..."
3. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"The bantu-speaking inhabitants of the Busoga District represent a population of,
perhaps, 500.000. Their country is in many places densely forested, ..."
4. Missionary Review of the World by James Lutzweiler (1900)
"The bantu-speaking race include the Ama Zulu and Ama Xosa—the latter ... It is
generally believed that these bantu-speaking people came from the north, ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"The greater part of the eastern coast-lands of the Victoria Nyanza, however, are
not in the hands of bantu-speaking peoples. They are inhabited by tribes of ..."
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