Tswa (Xitswa) is a South-Eastern Bantu language in Southern Mozambique. Its closest relatives are Ronga and Tsonga, the three forming the Tswa–Ronga family...
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Xitsonga, as an endonym, is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people of South Africa. It is mutually intelligible with Tswa and Ronga and the name "Tsonga"...
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The Tswa–Ronga languages (or just Tsonga) are a group of closely related Southern Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa chiefly in southern Mozambique...
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Sotho (Sesotho) East Sotho (Pulana, Khutswe and Pai) Lozi Tswa–Ronga (S50): Tsonga Ronga Tswa Venda (S20) Shona Eastern Shona group Ndau (S.15) Central...
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native language by around 50% of the population in Maputo. Mozambique has 22 Bantu origin languages which are: Swahili, Makhuwa, Sena, Ndau, Tswa-Ronga...
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Google Translate (redirect from Google Language Tools)
Tamazight (Tifinagh)* BETA Tibetan* BETA Tiv* Tok Pisin* Tshiluba* Tswana* Tswa Tuvan* Urhobo Urum Varhadi-Nagpuri Venda* Wolof* Yakut* Yucatec Maya* BETA...
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Zulu, one of the eleven official languages of South Africa. Tsonga, a Tswa–Ronga language and also an official language of South Africa, is spoken by 19...
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forming the Tswa–Ronga family of languages. Tswana is a Bantu language that is one of Zimbabwe's official languages. Venda is a Bantu language that is one...
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some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the...
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Valdezia (section Birthplace of Xitsonga language)
dialect from Ronga, Tswa (Xitswa), Chopi and 'Xigwamba' (Tsonga). These east coast dialects were blended together to form a new language, which the Swiss...
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Ronga (XiRonga; sometimes ShiRonga or GiRonga) is a Bantu language of the Tswa–Ronga branch spoken just south of Maputo in Mozambique. It extends a little...
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Tsonga people (category Articles containing Tsonga-language text)
African Tsonga people go by various tribal names (e.g., Tonga, Rhonga, Chopi, Tswa) but they are sometimes classified within the heritage and history of the...
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Tonga language (Mozambique) Tourism in Mozambique Transport in Mozambique Tsangano District Félix Tshisekedi Tsonga language Tsonga people Tswa language Mount...
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a Soviet experimental howitzer Shorland S51, a British armoured car Tswa language USS S-51 (SS-162), a submarine of the United States Navy Toyota S51...
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Mabote District (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
17% did speak Portuguese. The population was predominantly Tswa, speaking Tswa language. 81% were analphabetic, mostly women. There is limited production...
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Proto-Adyghe-Abkhaz, is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Northwest Caucasian languages. In Circassian and Abkhaz, gʷǝ is heart and in Ubykh it's gʲǝ. The most...
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afi bene wotrashi neke nonu noon (May sit like this the next year) Tswa Tswa tswa Omanye aba (Hai! Hail! Hail! May peace be) Cooking for Homowo Saturday...
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million) Shona (Ndau) (1.6 million) Lomwe (1.5 million) Sena (1.3 million) Tswa (1.2 million) Chuwabu (1.0 million) Chopi (800,000) Ronga (700,000) Chewa...
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languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström, and following the Guthrie classification. Bantu languages Guthrie classification of Bantu languages Classification...
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Canadian Aboriginal syllabics (category Articles containing Cree-language text)
a syllable, to indicate a w: ⟨ᐛ⟩ wa, ⟨ᐖ⟩ wo, ⟨ᑥ⟩ twa, ⟨ᒂ⟩ kwa, ⟨ᒠ⟩ cwa (/tswa/), ⟨ᒺ⟩ mwa, ⟨ᓏ⟩ nwa, ⟨ᔄ⟩ swa, ⟨ᔽ⟩ ywa. Since Naskapi s- consonant clusters...
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('run!') Most monosyllabic verbs may either suffix -a or prefix e- [t͡sʼʷɑ] -tswa ('exit') → [ɪt͡sʼʷɑ] etswa! / [t͡sʼʷɑ'ɑ] tswaa ('get out!') The verbs...
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Mozambique (category Articles containing Portuguese-language text)
area near the Zimbabwe border. South of this area are languages of the Tsonga group. XiTswa or Tswa occurs at the coast and inland, XiTsonga or Tsonga straddles...
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National Anthem of Zimbabwe (category Articles containing Shona-language text)
Zimbabwe has 16 national languages, the lyrics of the original Shona song were translated into the other 15 national languages as part of the 2013 constitutional...
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Sibilant (category Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt))
Changana, Tswa—all of which are Southern African languages—and Tabasaran. The articulation of whistled sibilants may differ between languages. In Shona...
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Tsu (kana) (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
compound word (see rendaku), and they can never begin a word. In the Ainu language, it can be written with a handakuten (which can be entered into a computer...
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Eastern Cree syllabics (category Cree language)
placed above or before a syllable, for a w: ᐛ wa, ᐖ wo, ᑥ twa, ᒂ kwa, ᒠ cwa (/tswa/), ᒺ mwa, ᓏ nwa, ᔄ swa, ᔽ ywa. Since Naskapi s- consonant clusters are all...
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Ndebele] S50: S51 Tswa, S52[53] Gwamba, S53 Tsonga, S54 Ronga, [S511 Hlengwe] S60: S61 Copi, S62 Tonga, [S611 Lenge] §: These languages do not have separate...
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to be an anantonym that comes from the meaning of the Sotho-Tswana word "tswa", which means "to come out of". The name would be derived from the word "Ba...
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nationwide hit. She was also featured in the official remix of Khuli Chana's "Tswa Daar" song, which featured other popular African artists like Ice Prince...
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Sotho verbs (category Verbs by language)
-holela grow for/towards Polysyllabic verbs ending in -sa, -tsa (most), -tswa, -ntsha, and -nya cause the -la to alveolarize to -tsa -etsa do ⇒ -etsetsa...
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