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Definition of Chaga
1. Noun. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaga
Literary usage of Chaga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa by Mary French Sheldon (1892)
"VULCANS OF chaga. ... fundis, or craftsmen in metal work, have attained a great
degree of skill and perfection throughout chaga land. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"... when the dew still lay thickly on the fern-fronds in the chaga lanes, and the
sun cast long blue shadows over the wet turf of the. village greens, ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"I have spoken of the platform of chaga, by that I mean the broad irregular terrace
which skirts the southern aspectof the mountain, rises from 4000 to 0000 ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"From them I learned that Mandara, who was the chief of chaga when New visited
it, has since been conquered by another chaga chief, and has now no power ..."
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