Bantu vs Kongo

Bantu and Kongo both are nouns.

Bantu is an adjective but Kongo is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Bantu	Yes	Yes	No	No
Kongo	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Kongo is a hyponym of Bantu; that is, Kongo is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Bantu:

Bantu: a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
Kongo: the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola

Other hyponyms of Bantu include Chichewa, Chichewa language, ChiMwini, ChiMwini language, Chishona, Chishona language, Fang, Fang language, Gikuyu, Gikuyu language, Giriama, Giriama language, Herero, Herero language, Kamba, Kamba language, Chaga, Chaga language, Chagga, Chagga language, Kichaga, Kichaga language, Kinyarwanda, Kinyarwanda language, Kiswahili, Kiswahili language, Kongo language, Luba, Luba language, Tshiluba, Tshiluba language, LuGanda, LuGanda language, Luyia, Luyia language, Mashi, Mashi language, Mwera, Mwera language, Nguni, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi language, Pokomo, Pokomo language, Shona, Shona language, Sotho, Sotho language, Umbundu, Umbundu language, Swahili, Swahili language, Tonga, Tonga language.

Bantu (noun)	Kongo (noun)
a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent	the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola
a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa

Bantu (adjective)	Kongo (adjective)
of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture

Difference between Bantu and Kongo

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