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    The Tswana (Tswana: Batswana, singular Motswana) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa. Ethnic Tswana made up approximately 85% of the population...
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  • Look up Tswana or tswana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tswana may refer to: Tswana people, the Bantu speaking people in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia...
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    Tswana, also known by its native name Setswana, and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in and indigenous to Southern Africa...
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    org/6/items/bantupastpresent00mole/bantupastpresent00mole.pdf The Sotho-Tswana, also known as the Sotho or Basotho, although the term is now closely associated...
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    Traditional Tswana music is performed by Tswana people during feasts and special occasions such as beer gatherings, weddings and initiation ceremonies...
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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-Tswana peoples are a meta-ethnicity of southern Africa and live predominantly in Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho....
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  • Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in Lesotho, and South Africa where it is an official...
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    The Tswana is an indigenous breed or group of breeds of beef cattle of Botswana. It is a Sanga type, similar to Barotse and Tuli. The coat colour may be...
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  • Tswana people, an ethnic group in southern Africa A citizen of Botswana of any ethnic background Tswana language Batswana (singular Motswana), Tswana...
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    Botswana (category Articles containing Tswana-language text)
    essentially the nation-state of the Tswana people, who constitute nearly 80 per cent of the population. The Tswana ethnic group are descended mainly from...
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  • Seiphemo Tuks Senganga Earl Sweatshirt (American rapper whose father is Tswana) Boity Thulo Redi Tlhabi Emma Wareus Sports David Bright Itumeleng Khune...
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    Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language...
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    establishment of the protectorate in March 1885. In September that year the Tswana country south of the Molopo River was proclaimed the Crown colony of British...
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    enemies: not only the Zulu king, but also the Boers, and the Griqua and Tswana. Defeats in several clashes convinced Mzilikazi to move north towards Swaziland...
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    Mahikeng (Tswana for "Place of Rocks"), formerly known as Mafikeng and alternatively known as Mafeking (/ˈmæfəkɪŋ/, US also /ˈmɑːf-/), is the capital city...
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    with the ethnic Tswana being the largest followed by other ethnicities who speak Setswana as a secondary language. The ethnic Tswana populace are concentrated...
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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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    Sotho (/ˈsuːtuː/), also known as the Basotho (/bæˈsuːtuː/), are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to Southern Africa. They primarily inhabit the regions...
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    North West (South African province) (category Articles containing Tswana-language text)
    27°S 26°E / 27°S 26°E / -27; 26 North West (Tswana: Bokone Bophirima; Afrikaans: Noord-Wes [ˈnuərt.vɛs]) is a province of South Africa. Its capital...
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    South Africa (category CS1 Tswana-language sources (tn))
    Africa has 12 official languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English, Pedi, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Tsonga, Swazi, Venda, and Southern Ndebele (in order of...
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    Bophuthatswana (category Articles containing Tswana-language text)
    (/ˌboʊpuːtətˈswɑːnə/, lit. 'gathering of the Tswana people'), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana; Afrikaans:...
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    Northern Sotho (category Sotho-Tswana languages)
    Sesotho sa Leboa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Limpopo...
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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 personhood...
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  • the Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Swazi), the Sotho-Tswana languages (Tswana, Sotho, and Pedi), Venda, and Tsonga. There are smaller but still...
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    Mosarwa) is used for the San collectively in Botswana. The term is a Bantu (Tswana) word meaning "those who do not rear cattle", that is, equivalent to Khoekhoe...
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  • about 7,000 people. In Botswana, most speakers are bilingual in Naro or Tswana.[citation needed] There are numerous spellings of the name, including ǁAuǁei...
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  • (Northern Transvaal Ndebele) Lala Bhaca Hlubi Nhlangwini Sotho–Tswana (S30 + K20): Tswana ("West Sotho") Birwa Tswapong Kgalagadi Sotho Northern Sotho (Sepedi)...
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    Sotho–Tswana towns and villages are scattered around the parts of the former Transvaal province in which Johannesburg is situated. Many Sotho–Tswana towns...
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  • written in braille: Afrikaans, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu. All print alphabets are restricted to the basic...
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