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bantoid language
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Bantoid languages
In the classification of African languages, Bantoid is a putative branch of the Benue–Congo branch of the Niger–Congo family. The term 'Bantoid' was first used by Krause in 1895 for languages that showed resemblances in vocabulary to Bantu. Greenberg in his 1963 The Languages of Africa defined Bantoid as the group to which (Narrow) Bantu belongs together with its closest relatives; this is the sense in which the term is still used today. The Bantoid languages probably do not actually form a coherent group.
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Bantoid language
Noun
1. a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
(synonym) Bantu
(hypernym) Niger-Congo
(hyponym) Chichewa
