Definition of Sechuana

1. Noun. The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana.

Exact synonyms: Setswana, Tswana
Generic synonyms: Sotho

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sechuana

Sebastodes miniatus
Sebastodes ruberrimus
Sebastopol
Sebileau
Sec
Sec.
SecDef
Secale cereale
Secchi disk
Secchi disks
Seceder
Seceders
Secernentasida
Secernentia
Sechuana
Seckel dwarfism
Seckel syndrome
Seconal
Second Advent
Second Adventism
Second Adventist
Second Coming
Second Coming of Christ
Second Crusade
Second Earl Grey
Second Earl of Chatham
Second Earl of Guilford
Second Empire
Second Epistel of John

Literary usage of Sechuana

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

1. The Kafir Language: Comprising a Sketch of Its History; which Includes a by John Whittle Appleyard (1850)
"The sechuana family comprises the dialects which are spoken by the different Bechuana tribes.20 Their country may be described, in general terms, ..."

2. The History of the British and Foreign Bible Society, from Its Institution by George Browne (1859)
"Gospel of St. Luke in the sechuana language. — Signal effect of the Scriptures ... Emancipation of slaves in the Mauritius.—Grant for the sechuana version. ..."

3. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa by Robert Moffat (1846)
"Every event in that • As many words in the sechuana ... sechuana is an adjective, and is accordingly applied to design ile anything ..."

4. Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller, Royal institution of Great Britain (1890)
"Then follows a table of vowel and consonantal changes in Kafir and sechuana, after which the author continues : " By comparing the above consonantal changes ..."

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