Bantologist

plural Bantologists

1. uncommonOne who studies or is a scholar of Bantu languages or peoples; a Bantuist.

   We sigh in vain in South Africa for psychologists who are expert Bantologists or for Bantologists who are expert psychologists.

   1963, Journal of the Royal African Society

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   Among the guests who have honoured the University by a visit we may mention the well-known German Bantologist, Professor Meinhof, who, under the auspices of the Senate, gave a course of lectures on the Literature and Religion of the Bantu;...

   1929, “Annual Report of the Department of Defense of South Africa”, in Papers: U.G.

   [... the] Commission, who estimated the geographical income in the Bantu territories of South Africa. In connection with the last survey mentioned, it may be pointed out that fieldwork was undertaken by agricultural economists and Bantologists.

   1960, Finance and Trade Review