a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa a member of the tall Negroid people of southeast Africa living in northern Natal
One of the most important members of the South African, or Bantu, family of languages, spoken partly in Natal and partly in Zululand, but understood, and more or less in use, over a wide territory, at least as far north as the Zambezi; called also Zulu-Kaffir