• The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini) by the Nguni people. Nguni languages...
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    The Nguni people are a linguistic cultural group of Bantu cattle herders who migrated from central Africa into Southern Africa, made up of ethnic groups...
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  • Bantu languages, including the Venda, Tsonga, Tonga, Lozi which is native to Zambia and the other surrounding Southern African countries and Nguni languages...
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    to the south of Africa. Nguni languages Nguni shield Cowhide The Nguni Cattle Project. Archived at The Wayback Machine Nguni Cattle at Embryoplus Archived...
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    thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi...
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    with other Nguni languages to a lesser extent. Nguni languages are, in turn, classified under the much larger abstraction of Bantu languages. Xhosa is...
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    Transvaal Ndebele is one of the eleven official languages in the Republic of South Africa. The language is a Nguni or Zunda classification (UN) spoken mostly...
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    the term Matabele, is a Bantu language spoken by the Northern Ndebele people which belongs to the Nguni group of languages. Ndebele is a term used to refer...
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    all languages using clicks as phonemes are considered Khoisan. Most others are neighboring Bantu languages in southern Africa: the Nguni languages (Xhosa...
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    dental [n̪] appear in homorganic consonant clusters. Unlike some of the Nguni languages, Tsonga has very few words with click consonants, and these vary in...
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    Swazi or siSwati is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and South Africa by the Swati people. The number of speakers...
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    Bantoid languages. The total number of Bantu languages is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages, depending on the definition of "language" versus...
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  • form of all modern day Nguni languages. It is possible that the ancient Ndau are one of the first ancestral tribes of the Ngunis, similarly to the Mthethwas...
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  • Zulu calendar (category Nguni languages)
    The Zulu calendar is the traditional lunisolar calendar used by the Zulu people of South Africa. Its new year begins at the new moon of uMandulo(September)...
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  • Nguni may refer to: Nguni languages Nguni cattle Nguni people Nguni sheep, which divide into the Zulu, Pedi, and Swazi types Nguni stick-fighting Nguni...
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  • of several languages of the Ngoni people, who descend from the Nguni people of southern Africa, and the language is a member of the Nguni subgroup, with...
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  • Phuthi (Síphùthì) is a Nguni Bantu language spoken in southern Lesotho and areas in South Africa adjacent to the same border. The closest substantial living...
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  • Southern Bantu languages Makua (P30) Makhuwa Koti Sakati (Nathembo) Lomwe Chuwabu Moniga Chopi (S60) Chopi Guitonga Nguni languages (S40) Zunda Xhosa...
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    'televixin', and not for all speakers). In Nahuatl, ⟨x⟩ represents /ʃ/. In Nguni languages, ⟨x⟩ represents the alveolar lateral click /ǁ/. In Norwegian, ⟨x⟩ is...
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  • rare for a language to distinguish /kʼ/ and /kxʼ/, though several of the Nguni languages do so, as well as the Northeast Caucasian language Karata-Tukita...
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    strongly deviating languages, although both are Southern Bantu languages, and the different settlement types and relationships. In the Nguni settlements villages...
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  • Sabela (category Languages of South Africa)
    general populace of South Africa. UkuSabela means to respond in various Nguni languages. Sabela inherits most of its vocabulary, phonology, and syntax from...
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  • of its 12 official languages. The number is surpassed only by India. These languages include English, Afrikaans, the Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele...
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  • Amapiano, a South African music genre taken from the Nguni language word for "pianos", is a subgenre of kwaito and house music that emerged in South Africa...
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    endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken and indigenous to Southern Africa. It is the language of the Zulu people, with about...
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    acquired clicks in an ongoing process of such sounds spreading from Nguni languages. Some examples of Northern Sotho words and phrases: Universal Declaration...
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  • the Zulu and Zimbabwean Ndebele ethnic groups are very similar (see Nguni languages). Some people argue that the song describes the journey to the mines...
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  • closely related to Swazi. The Nhlangwini/Ntlangwini people are the largest Nguni ethnic group in KZN South Coast, Bulwer, Mzimkhulu and in parts of the Eastern...
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    Boredom (category Articles containing French-language text)
    well, making the ride more tedious despite being over sooner. In some Nguni languages such as Zulu, boredom and loneliness are represented by the same word...
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  • There are no subtitles, and incidental music is mostly absent. It features Nguni tribal songs specifically recorded for the film. A vinyl LP The Naked Prey...
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