The Sotho-Tswana, also known as the Sotho or Basotho, although the term is now closely associated with the Southern Sotho peoples are a meta-ethnicity...
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The Sotho-Tswana languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa. The Sotho-Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label...
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The Sotho (/ˈsuːtuː/), also known as the Basotho (/bæˈsuːtuː/), are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group who have long inhabited Southern Africa. They primarily...
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The Sotho-Tswana peoples are a meta-ethnicity of southern Africa and live predominantly in Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho....
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regarded Tswana as a dialect of the Xhosa, and the name that he used for the language "Beetjuana" may also have covered the Northern and Southern Sotho languages...
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Sesotho sa Leboa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in the Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Limpopo...
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Sotho (/sɛˈsuːtuː/) Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in...
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known as the Northern Sotho, Basotho ba Lebowa, bakgatla ba dithebe, Transvaal Sotho, Marota, or Dikgoshi - are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to...
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their unique language, music, and dance. Tswana people Sotho people Sotho-Tswana peoples Barotseland Lozi people Bokone "Basarwa and Bakgalagadi communities"...
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Sotho, Tswana, and Lozi Sotho-Tswana peoples, a group of southern African ethnic groups with a common history, speakers of languages in the Sotho group...
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Glayton Modise, the International Pentecostal Holiness Church leader Sotho-Tswana peoples Demographics of Botswana Langeberg Rebellion (1896–97) Battle of...
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and displacing Sotho and Tswana neighbors. The mid-1820s saw Sebetwane dominate the upper Molopo region and Moletsane's Bataung people heavily raid the...
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Museum in Pretoria. Venda people share ancestry with Lobedu people and Kalanga people. They are also related to Sotho-Tswana peoples and Shona groups. The...
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traditional religion of the Sotho-Tswana people. Modimo and all its derivatives ultimately stem from the proto-Sotho-Tswana prefix *mo- which indicates...
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sometimes considered a dialect of the Northern Sotho language and is grammatically similar to other Sotho–Tswana languages. Mutual intelligibility between...
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Bakgatla people, which is one of sub-divisions of the Bantu-speaking Tswana peoples. These different groups are often classified for convenience as 'Sotho-Tswana'...
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Bhaca people Hlubi people Southern Ndebele people Swati people Xhosa people Zulu people Shangana–Tsonga people Sotho–Tswana people: Southern sotho Basotho...
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turned himself into an anthill to confuse his enemy and escape. Like most Sotho-Tswana groups, MaPulana believe in Badimo (ancestors). When they perform their...
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Kwena tribe (redirect from Koena people)
Bakwena or Bakoena ("those who venerate the crocodile") are a large Sotho-Tswana clan in Southern Africa of the southern Bantu group. They can be found...
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Thaba 'Nchu (category Sotho-Tswana peoples in South Africa)
17 km east of Botshabelo. The population is largely made up of Tswana and Sotho people. The town was settled in December 1833 and officially established...
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Taung tribe (category Sotho-Tswana peoples in South Africa)
which speaks the Sotho-Tswana group of languages, namely, Setswana, Sepedi, Sesotho and Lozi.[citation needed] "Tau" is a Sotho-Tswana word meaning "Lion"...
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Sotho and Tswana peoples.[citation needed] In the early 19th century, the Ndebele invaded and lived in territories populated by Sotho–Tswana peoples,...
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Badimo (Sotho-Tswana literally meaning "ancestors") is the name for the traditional African practice of ancestor veneration for the Sotho-Tswana people of...
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Rolong (redirect from Rolong people)
/ˈrɒlɒŋ/; also known as the Barolong) are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to Botswana. The Rolong people's name originated from the clan's first kgosi...
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Mfecane, the Nguni people spread across a large part of southern Africa, absorbing, conquering, or displacing many other peoples. However, the notion...
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Kgosi (category Sotho-Tswana peoples in South Africa)
A kgosi (/ˈkoʊsi/; Tswana pronunciation: [ˈkχʊ.si]) is the title for a hereditary leader of a Batswana and South Africa peoples tribe. The word "kgosi"...
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schools except in SeTswana and Northern Sotho lessons. Pretoria Taal (or Sepitori) is mutually intelligible with SeTswana and Northern Sotho. It is a very dynamic...
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always inhabited Barotseland. In about 1830, an army that originated in the Sotho-speaking Bafokeng region of South Africa, known as the Makololo, led by...
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and a former commander of the African National Congress's military Sotho-Tswana peoples "South African Military History Society - Journal- THE SEKUKUNI WARS"...
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only been used by neighbouring Sotho-Tswana_peoples coming to and from the Magaliesberg mountains. Local resident Tswana tribes referred to it simply as...
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