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Barotse|bəˈrɒtsiː|
The name of a negroid race inhabiting the region of the Upper Zambezi basin in southern Africa, and of the language spoken by them.
Barotse represents the pronunciation of the name in former times by the inhabitants of Basutoland and is now replaced in local official usage by Balozi, the language being called Silozi. Barotse and Balozi are based upon the same root pronounced differently by different people. (M. Guthrie, private letter, 1959.)
1851Livingstone Let. 1 Oct. (1940) 151 We proceeded..to see the Sesheke or river of the Barotse. 1857― Trav. iv. 87 The black men referred to were the Barotse, or, as they term themselves, Baloiána. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 828/1 Language..Zambesi Group..Ba-Rotse. 1910Ibid. III. 424/2 Barotse..is also applied to contiguous subject tribes, Barotseland being the country over which the Barotse paramount chief exercises authority. 1936P. M. Clark Autobiogr. Old Drifter ix. 127 At this time I knew nothing of the Barotse language, but got along with some of the natives who could talk what was called Kitchen Kaffir. |