Bantu

音標發(fā)音

Americans, they like soft corn, and the Bantu, we like hard corn.
而班圖人喜歡硬質玉米。
By the way, the other day I dreamt of you convulsing your entire body with a graceful Hawaiian dance at the Bantu Men’s Social Centre.
順便說一下，前幾天我夢見你在班圖男士社交中心扭動著全身跳起了優(yōu)雅的夏威夷舞蹈。
Bantu speakers originated in West Africa and began to migrate southward some 5, 000 years ago, displacing the Bushmen, who were until recently hunter-gatherers.
班圖語族起源于西非，大約五千年前開始向南遷徙，逐漸取代至今仍是采獵民族的布什曼人。

Africa's lack of linguistic diversity is due largely to the success of Bantu-speaking people.
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The Mijikenda include nine Bantu-speaking ethnic groups in the Kaya forests of coastal Kenya.
UNESCO: Culture
These are Indo-European, Bantu, Austronesian (from South-East Asia and the Pacific) and Uto-Aztecan (the native vernaculars of the Americas).
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a group of languages spoken by people in Central and Southern Africa that includes Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu