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1862 W. H. I. Bleek Compar. Gram. S. Afr. Langs.: Pt. I 2 The chief characteristics of this class of inter-tropical languages [i.e. Bâ-ntu] is that the pronouns are originally borrowed from the derivative prefixes of the nouns, whilst in that class of languages to which the Hottentot..belong, the pronouns are originally borrowed from the derivative suffixes of the nouns. The former class is, on this account, called the Prefix-pronominal Languages.

1905 W. H. Tooke in W. Flint & J. D. F. Gilchrist Science in S. Afr. 81 The Bantu tongue is an agglutinative polysyllabic, prefix-pronominal language of which the most salient features are the noun classes and the concord.

1996 M. Chapman S. Afr. Lit. i. 32 A theory of the origins of language according to which ‘prefix-pronomial’ languages, such as Zulu, were regarded as organically incapable of grasping poetically the constitution of things.

2003 D. Chidester in J. K. Olupona Beyond Primitivism iii. 78 In South Africa, Bleek's ‘African researches’ suggested a global classification of both language and religion into two general families, the sex-denoting languages, which included the ‘Hottentots’, but also the Semitic and the Aryan, and the prefix-pronominal languages, which included the ‘Bantu’, Negro, and Polynesian.