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Bantu

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The name of most of the races, with their languages, that occupy Africa from 6° N. lat. to 20° S.; are negroid rather than negro, being in several respects superior; the name, however, suggests rather a linguistic than an ethnological distinction, the language differing radically from all other known forms of speech—the inflection, for one thing, chiefly initial, not final.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bantu'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bantu.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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