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Definition of Tswana

1. Noun. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa.

Definition of Tswana

1. Proper noun. A Bantu people living in Botswana and South Africa. ¹

2. Proper noun. The Bantu language of these people; Setswana. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tswana

Literary usage of Tswana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Black Composers of Southern Africa by Yvonne Huskisson, Sarita Hauptfleisch (1992)
"With limited Tswana song repertoire, needing songs for school choir, started composing, ... Appeal to Tswana nation to work harmoniously with councillors. ..."

2. Transforming South Africa by Armin Osmanovic (2002)
"Of the nine African languages currently officially acknowledged in law, all except one can be grouped under either Nguni or Sotho-Tswana. ..."

3. Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda by Brian Watermeyer (2007)
"... School at Rustenburg for Tswana, South and North Sotho ... the Dominican school at Hammanskraal for the Tswana and North Sotho pupils; ..."

4. Hope for South Africa? by Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan (1991)
"Black South Africans—Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, and others—are not like black Americans. ... By contrast, the separate ethnic communities of the Zulu, Tswana, ..."

5. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
"But there is actually a word for that in Tswana. So where did that word come from? The word that they use, the old proper Tswana word, ..."

6. New Dictionary of South African Biography by E. J. Verwey, Nelson Mandela (1995)
"University of the Orange Free State, 1963; — Mc LEGASSICK, The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana, and the missionaries, 1780-1840: the politics of a frontier zone. ..."

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