a Bantu people of south-central Africa, or their language.
From the Bemba language itself, an ethnic and linguistic designation for people primarily from what is now Zambia. The word comes directly from the indigenous ethnonym.
The Bemba people have one of the most widely-spoken languages in southern Africa, yet English speakers often know nothing about them—it's a reminder that major world languages exist outside the usual European-centric focus of English dictionaries.
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