Bantu

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Americans, they like soft corn, and the Bantu, we like hard corn.
而班圖人喜歡硬質(zhì)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(mèng)見你在班圖男士社交中心扭動(dòng)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