Bantu vs Tonga

Bantu and Tonga both are nouns.

Bantu is an adjective but Tonga is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, Tonga is a hyponym of Bantu; that is, Tonga 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
Tonga: the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)

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, Swahili language, Tonga language.

Bantu (noun)	Tonga (noun)
a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent	the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)
a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa	a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970

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

Difference between Bantu and Tonga

Words related to "Tonga"

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