banton
See also: Banton
Esperanto edit
Noun edit
banton
- accusative singular of banto
Jamaican Creole edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Burro Banton?”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banton (plural banton dem, quantified banton)
- storyteller
- 1998, Howard J. Blumenthal, The World Music CD Listener's Guide (in English), →ISBN, page 23:
- “It's not clear whether the Banton name came from a local term used to describe a storyteller or from Jamaican performer Burro Banton (perhaps both)”