Example sentences for: bantu

How can you use “bantu” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Swahili words were chosen because the language, a hybrid of Arabic and Bantu tongues, is tied to no particular African tribe.

  • Groups normally hostile to Tutsis, including Bantu student protesters in Kinshasa, have turned against Mobutu.

  • The languages discussed here are what are usually called the Indo-European family; similar family trees could be drawn for the Semitic languages, Sino-Tibetan, Japanese, Bantu, Malayo-Polynesian, and so on.

  • Many Zairians consider Mobutu to be the stern-but-loving "national father ." Other more superstitious Zairians endow him with a supernatural aura, something he has cultivated through his identification with the leopard, which signifies omnipotence in Bantu iconography.

  • The Fans --a Bantu tribe--tell of an imperfect creation.


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