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"(1862) De l’allemand Bantu attesté en 1850 chez le linguiste allemand Wilhelm Bleek, apparenté au xhosa abantu (« gens, humanité ») pluriel de umntu avec le préfixe pluriel ba-."
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"(1862) De l’allemand Bantu attesté en 1850 chez le linguiste allemand Wilhelm Bleek, apparenté au xhosa abantu (« gens, humanité ») pluriel de umntu avec le préfixe pluriel ba-."
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