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List of English words of African origin : ウィキペディア英語版
List of English words of Niger-Congo origin

This is a list of English language words that come from the Niger-Congo languages.
It excludes placenames except where they have become common words.
==Bantu origin==

*azawakh - probably from Fula or Tuareg. A breed of dog from West and North Africa
*banjo – probably Bantu ''mbanza''
*basenji – breed of dog from the Congo
*boma – probably from Swahili
*bwana – from Swahili, meaning an important person or safari leader
*chimpanzee – loaned in the 18th century from a Bantu language, possibly Kivili ''ci-mpenzi''.〔"chimpanzee" in American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2011.〕
*dengue – possibly from Swahili ''dinga''
*gerenuk - from Somali
*gnu – from Bushman ''!nu'' through Khoikhoi ''i-ngu'' and Dutch ''gnoe''
*goober – possibly from Bantu (Kikongo and Kimbundu ''nguba'')
*gumbo – from Bantu (Kimbundu ''ngombo'' meaning "okra")
*impala – from Zulu ''im-pala''
*impi – from Zulu language meaning war, battle or a regiment
*indaba – from Xhosa or Zulu languages – 'stories' or 'news' typically conflated with 'meeting' (often used in South African English)
*jumbo – from Swahili (''jambo'' or ''jumbe'' or from Kongo ''nzamba'' "elephant")
*kalimba
*Kwanzaa – recent coinage (Maulana Karenga 1965) as the name of a "specifically African-American holiday", abstracted from a Swahili phrase ''matunda ya kwanza'', meaning "first fruits (the harvest )".
*lapa – from Sotho languages – ''enclosure'' or ''barbecue area'' (often used in South African English)
*macaque – from Bantu ''makaku'' through Portuguese and French
*mamba – from Zulu or Swahili ''mamba''
*marimba – from Bantu (Kimbundu and Swahili ''marimba'', ''malimba'')
*okapi – from a language in the Congo
*safari – from Swahili ''travel'', ultimately from Arabic
*sangoma – from Zulu – ''traditional healer'' (often used in South African English)
*Tilapia – Possibly a latinization "thiape", the Tswana word for fish.〔(Tilapia etymology )〕
*tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana ''tsetse'', Luhya ''tsiisi'')
*ubuntuNguni term for "mankind; humanity", in South Africa since the 1980s also used capitalized, ''Ubuntu'', as the name of a philosophy or ideology of "human kindness" or "humanism".
*vuvuzela – musical instrument, name of Zulu or Nguni origin
*zebra – of unknown origin, recorded since c. 1600, possibly from a Congolese language, or alternatively from Amharic.
*zombie – likely from West African (compare Kikongo ''zumbi'' "fetish", Kimbundu ''nzambi'' "god"), but alternatively derived from Spanish ''sombra'' "shade, ghost".

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