Semi-Bantu

British  

noun

1. a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family

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adjective

1. relating to or belonging to this group of languages

Example Sentences

In the north-west of the Bantu field, in the region between Cameroon and the north-western basin of the Congo, the Cross river and the Benue, there is an area of great extent occupied by languages of a "semi-Bantu" character, such as Nki, Mbudikum, Akpa, Mbe, Bayo�, Manya�, Bafut and Banshō, and the Munshi, Jar�wa, Kororofa, Kamuku and Gbari of the central and western Benue basin.

From Project Gutenberg

This ponderous volume on the Bantu and Semi-Bantu languages is the first part of a work which represents the fruit of many years of study of multitudinous African languages and dialects.

From Project Gutenberg

The major portion of the book consists of illustrative vocabularies of 366 Bantu and 87 Semi-Bantu languages and dialects with an extensive bibliography.

From Project Gutenberg

The sketch map showing the distribution of Bantu and Semi-Bantu languages is absurdly inadequate.

From Project Gutenberg