bantu

adjective

relating to or denoting a group of Niger–Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu.

1. a group of Niger–Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu.
2. a member of an indigenous people of central and southern Africa that speaks a Bantu language.

mid 19th century: plural (in certain Bantu languages) of -ntu ‘person’.