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What does Bantu mean?

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  1. The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
  2. General term for African ethnic groups speaking a Bantu language and their members.
  3. (offensive) A black South African.
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Kenya is a multilingual and multicultural nation, with 42 different languages spoken, including Bantu, Arabic, and Nilotic.
Its vocabulary is mostly French, with a few Malagasy, Bantu, English, and Hindi words.
The San people were also similarly displaced and reduced in numbers by the arrival of invading Bantu farmers to the south a few centuries later.
In Gabon, the Baka language is surrounded by the Bantu languages, and more precisely by the Fang language.
Throughout the first few centuries A.D., Kenya was the destination of numerous migrating tribes, such as the Luo and the Bantu peoples.
The changing economic situation is creating growing conflict between Baka and Bantu.

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