Bantu vs Swahili

Swahili vs Bantu

Bantu and Swahili both are nouns.

Bantu is an adjective but Swahili is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, Swahili is a hyponym of Bantu; that is, Swahili 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
Swahili: the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa

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, 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 language, Tonga, Tonga language.

Bantu (noun)	Swahili (noun)
a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent	the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa

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

Difference between Bantu and Swahili

Words related to "Swahili"

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