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  1. Group of related languages spoken widely
  2. over the greater part of Africa south of
  3. the Sahara, including Swahili, Xhosa,
  4. and Zulu. Meaning `people' in Zulu,
  5. the word Bantu itself illustrates a
  6. characteristic use of prefixes: mu-ntu `man',
  7. ba-ntu `people'. The Bantu-speaking peoples
  8. probably originated in N Central Africa.
  9. Until 1978, the black people of the Republic
  10. of South Africa were officially designated
  11. Bantu(s).
  12.