Xhosa (/ˈkɔːsə/ KAW-sə or /ˈkoʊsə/ KOH-sə, Xhosa: [ᵏǁʰôːsa] ), formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language, indigenous...
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Look up Xhosa or xhosa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Xhosa may refer to: Xhosa people, a nation, and ethnic group, who live in south-central and...
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The Xhosa people, or Xhosa-speaking people (/ˈkɔːsə/ KAW-sə, /ˈkoʊsə/ KOH-sə; Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰɔ́ːsa] ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to South...
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The Xhosa Wars (also known as the Cape Frontier Wars or the Kaffir Wars) were a series of nine wars (from 1779 to 1879) between the Xhosa Kingdom and...
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following is a list of timekeeping terminology in the isiXhosa language. The traditional isiXhosa names for months of the year poetically come from names...
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Xhosa music has long been a major part of the music of South Africa, especially in the field of jazz. Since olden times, singing has been a tradition...
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Nguni people (section Xhosa Speaking)
Zimbabwe. The Xhosa were pastoralist from late iron age Bantu and proto-Bantu agro-pastoralists and established sub-federations under AmaXhosa kingdom, which...
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Eastern Cape (category Articles containing Xhosa-language text)
The Eastern Cape (Xhosa: iMpuma-Kapa; Afrikaans: Oos-Kaap [ˈuəs.kɑːp]) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, and its largest...
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Xhosa literature is the spoken and written literature of the Xhosa people of Southern Africa. The Xhosa language is spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe...
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Iziduko (pl.) in Xhosa are family names that are considered more important than surnames among Xhosa people. Many Xhosa persons can trace their family...
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History of the Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 (redirect from Xhosa cattle-killing)
1879. The wars were fought between the European colonists and the native Xhosa who, defending their land, fought against European rule. The Cape Colony...
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Eighth Xhosa War was a war between the British Empire and Xhosa as well as Khoikhoi forces, between 1850 and 1853. It was the eighth of nine Xhosa Wars...
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The Xhosa nation has two independent kingships, with the Gcaleka Xhosa, being the senior branch as the Great House of King Phalo kaTshiwo and the Rharhabe...
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Bantu peoples of South Africa (category Articles containing Xhosa-language text)
king of the Xhosas but was defeated. Then Ngqika appealed to the British who seized 23,000 head of cattle from a Xhosa chief. The Xhosa prophet, Nxele...
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This is a list of notable Xhosa people. King Maxhoba Sandile, Aa! Zanesizwe! - King of the Rharhabe sub-group of the Xhosa nation in Mngqesha Great Palace...
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Marginella xhosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. Marginella xhosa Liltved & Millard...
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the oldest royal family in South Africa.They trace their ancestry back to Xhosa, a mythical figure who led the Nguni clans to near the Mzimkulu river, conquering...
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King Vulikhaya ka-Xolilizwe (Ahlangene Cyprian Sigcawu) is the King of Xhosa people. He was born in 1970 in Nqadu Great Place in Willowvale by King Xolilizwe...
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Conus xhosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. These snails are predatory...
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South Africa (category Articles containing Xhosa-language text)
southernmost group was the Xhosa people, whose language incorporates certain linguistic traits from the earlier Khoisan people. The Xhosa reached the Great Fish...
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I'solezwe lesiXhosa is a Xhosa language newspaper launched in 2015. I'solezwe lesiXhosa became the country's only Xhosa newspaper when it was published...
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Thembu (category Articles containing Xhosa-language text)
Thembu (Xhosa: AbaThembu) are a Xhosa Nation who inhabited the Kingdom of Thembuland. They were established around the 16th century as one of the Xhosa federations...
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migrating from the North. Additionally, he was the father of King Xhosa. The Xhosa people, today considered a sub-nation of the Nguni nation, were historically...
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UThixo (category Xhosa language)
uThixo is a Xhosa word that means "God" or "The Almighty" in English. It is often used as a reference to the divine being in the context of the Christian...
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Nongqawuse (category Pages with Xhosa IPA)
(Xhosa pronunciation: [noᵑǃʱawuːse]; c. 1841 – 1898) was a Xhosa prophet. Her prophecies resulted in a millenarian belief that culminated in the Xhosa...
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This article focuses on the history of 19th century Xhosa language newspapers in South Africa. The first Nguni language newspapers in South Africa were...
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2016[update]), the Kikuyu of Kenya (8.1 million as of 2019[update]), the Xhosa people of Southern Africa (9.6 million as of 2011), batswana of Southern...
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Maqoma (category Xhosa people)
September 1873) was a Xhosa chief and a commander of the Xhosa forces during the Cape Frontier Wars. Born in the Right Hand House of the Xhosa Kingdom, he was...
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Fengu people (category Xhosa people)
The amaMfengu (in the Xhosa language Mfengu, plural amafengu) were a group of Xhosa clans whose ancestors were refugees that fled from the Mfecane in...
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African dolls (category Xhosa culture)
needed source of income for the Ndebele woman. Xhosa fertility dolls are beaded dolls made and worn by Xhosa women. The doll is also known as the ‘love doll’...
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