Ngunin.adj.

1929 A. T. Bryant Olden Times in Zululand & Natal i. 3 The natives of South-Eastern Africa we distinguish as of three separate families, which we call respectively Ngu̔ni, in Zululand, the Transvaal, Natal and the Cape; Sutu̔..; and To̔nga.

1957 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. (ed. 3) viii. 168 This group [sc. Eastern Southern Bantu] consists of two main subdivisions Nguni and Tsonga. The former include the Cape Nguni of the Ciskei and Transkei..together with the ‘Fingo’..; the Natal Nguni, or ‘Zulu’ of Natal and Zululand, with their offshoot the Ndebele (Tebele) of Southern Rhodesia; the Swazi of Swaziland and the Eastern Transvaal; and the ‘Transvaal Ndebele’.

1976 M. E. West & J. Morris Abantu 7 Within South Africa..the largest group is the Nguni who make up 66% of the black population.

1986 P. A. McAllister Xhosa Beer Drinks 42 The ritual significance of beer..seems to have been greater among Sotho-speakers and Venda than among Nguni.

1939 N. J. van Warmelo in A. M. Duggan-Cronin Bantu Tribes III. i. 13 Nguni..occupies a unique position in the Bantu family of languages, in so far as words containing the non-Bantu clicks occur in great abundance.

1946 Man 46 21/2 Mechanisms for changing legislation are more developed among the Sotho than among the Nguni-speaking peoples.

1978 B. Chapman Clarke's Analyt. Archaeol. (ed. 2) ix. 373 Five distinctive assemblages..which coincide with the principal Bantu languages—Sotho, Nguni, Venda [etc.].

1981 Star (Johannesburg) 18 June 3 It will start on one channel broadcasting in both Nguni and Sotho, but within a year it will expand into two channels.

1998 Lexikos 8 274 A text that is composed predominantly in Xhosa but which includes many lexical, syntactical and morphological elements from one or more of the other varieties of Nguni will be labelled ‘Nguni’ text.

1929 A. T. Bryant Olden Times in Zululand & Natal i. 5 Captured Bushwomen became common in their homes... And the children..adopted..in a Bantuized form, much of the slave-girl's speech... Hence the clicks in Ngu̔ni speech.

1940 M. Gluckman in M. Fortes & E. E. Evans-Pritchard Afr. Polit. Systems i. 29 In the earlier period of Nguni history, political allegiance tended to coincide with kinship affiliation.

1950 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown & C. D. Forde Afr. Syst. Kinship & Marriage 58 In the Nguni tribes the personal name that a woman has in her own family, as a daughter, may not be used by her husband's family.

2000 Church Times 3 Mar. 22/4 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission..letting individuals tell their story and lift their load, under the Nguni concept of ubuntu (‘I am human because I belong’).