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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mystery Solver: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: I know this isn't the place to go into it but [i]baNtu[/i] doesn't originate as a word invented by linguists.[/QUOTE]In what language does it originate? [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: Ttbomk, the word [i]ba-Ntu[/i] does in fact mean "people," although true it does not mean any particular or even generalized phenotype or physical type of people as it's often misused to do.[/QUOTE]I guess this would be an example where a generic term has been used as a reference to certain people fitting a certain archetype in the minds of some folks; so what specific language attests to this meaning? I am under the impression that most of those "non-Bantu" speaking folks who use the term "Bantu" in the sense noted earlier, will not have been aware of its meaning. Many of these folks likely came across the term from its application as a *proper noun* in linguistic typology and/or its anthropological derivative thereof. That is a point, that I hope will not be obscured along the way. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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