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NGUNI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Nguni mean?
• NGUNI (noun)
The noun NGUNI has 1 sense:
1. a group of southern Bantu languages
Familiarity information: NGUNI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of southern Bantu languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Nguni" is a kind of...):
Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Nguni"):
Matabele; Ndebele (a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu)
Swazi; Xhosa (a Bantu language closely related to Zulu)
Zulu (a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa)
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