Semi-Bantu

noun

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: a group of African languages sharing certain characteristics of the Bantu languages but excluded from them

—used sometimes of the Central Branch of the Niger-Congo family exclusive of Bantu and sometimes of all west African languages with noun classes marked by prefixes

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