Greenberg in his 1963 The Languages of Africa defined Bantoid as the group to which (Narrow) Bantu belongs together with its closest relatives; this is the sense in which the term is still used today.
The language largely consists of elements of French and African languages, with some influence from other sources, notably Native American languages.
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