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Shangaan|ʃæŋˈgɑːn|
[Native name.]
(A member of) a Bantu people inhabiting Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa; the language of the south-east Bantu group spoken by this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1887J. W. Matthews Incwadi Yami 183 The native labour of the diamond fields..includes nearly twenty different tribes such as Zulus, Swazees, Basutos, Shangaans, [etc.]. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 189/2 The Shangaan are members of a Bantu tribe from the Delagoa Bay region who took refuge in the Transvaal between 1860 and 1862 to escape Zulu raids. 1932C. Fuller Louis Trigardt's Trek 39 Trigardt adopted a version from other than local natives, probably his Shangaan guides. 1948Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–48 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 38/1, I have had in hand a most valuable document, prepared by a young Shangaan. 1968C. Burke Elephant across Border iv. 118 An elderly man..got out, speaking quietly in Shangaan to an African. Ibid. 128 They suddenly saw Murray and his Shangaan tracker. 1973Standard Encycl. S. Afr. IX. 601/1 The Transvaal Tsonga—called Machangana (Shangaans),..—have been recognised as one of the eight Bantu peoples living in the Republic of South Africa. |