Rolongn.adj.
/ˈrɒlɒŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɔˌlɔŋ/, /ˈrɑˌlɑŋ/, South African English /ˈrɒlɒŋ/ A. n.
1. = Serolong n.
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Setswana1824
Rolong1891
Tswana1891
Serolong1894
1891 J. Torrand Compar. Gram. S.-Afr. Bantu Langs. Introd. p. xxi In general the languages of the same cluster must be considered as mere dialectic varieties. This, for instance, is the case with..Tlhaping, Rolong, Suto, and Kololo, in the Chwana cluster.
1924 Official Year Bk. Union of Basutoland, Bechuanaland & Swaziland No. 7. 883 The most important Bantu languages indigenous to the Union are..the Chwana-Suto group..comprising the Chwana dialects of Mangwato, Tlaping, Rolong and others.
1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 70 Rolong = Roloŋ, including Hurutshe = Hurutsi, [etc.].
1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 173 Tswana..dialects: Tlahaping (Tlapi), Rolong, Kwena, Kgatla, Ngwatu.
2. A member of a southern African people of the Tswana group, living mainly in the North West Province of South Africa and in Botswana; a speaker of Rolong.Also called Morolong (see Morolong n. and adj.) and Barolong (see Barolong adj. and n.).
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Zimba1625
Tambouki1786
Hottentot1795
Morolong1815
Oorlam1815
Barolong1823
Tembu1827
Fingo1829
Ngwaketsea1832
Ovaherero1851
Lunda1857
Herero1862
Swazi1878
Magwamba1884
Khoisan1929
Rolong1937
1937 N. J. van Warmelo in I. Schapera Bantu-speaking Tribes S. Afr. iii. 60 The Tswana proper, living all along the fringe of the Kalahari, comprise the Thlaping; the Thlaro; the Rolong [etc.].
1940 P. R. Kirby Diary Dr. A. Smith II. 142 This native was a Rolong, who was probably taken to England by the Wesleyan missionaries.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. Afr. People 113 Warden in 1851 assembled a combined force of troops, white farmers, Griqua, Kora and Rolong.
1996 J. S. Olson Peoples of Afr. 496 The Rolongs are one of the primary subdivisions of the Tswana people of Botswana and South Africa.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Rolong or their language.
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Siddi1737
Kaffir1763
Barolong1802
Setswana1811
Tambouki1827
Motswana1835
Swazi1872
Lunda1879
Tswana1891
Tembu1927
Rolong1935
Batswana1953
the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages > of or relating to Tswana
Setswana1815
Tswana1891
Rolong1935
1935 Africa 8 198 In considering the available school literature, it must be borne in mind that the Church of England work, inspired by Crisp, was in one of the Southern Rolong dialects.
1949 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 13 207 The fact that Rolong f is bilabial should not affect the spelling.
1967 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 8 124 He was stopped by reports from Rolong refugees from various places who had been driven off by the raiding bands.
1980 W. F. Lye & C. Murray Transformations on Highveld 90 All Barolong acknowledge their descent from a common ancestor Morolong... But there has been no united Rolong political community since the latter half of the eighteenth century.
1993 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 19 278 It also offers a possible link between the emergence of enlarged states in northern Zululand and the eighteenth century emergence of the Rolong paramountcy on the highveld.
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