Serolongn.
/ˈsɛrəlɒŋ/, U.S. /ˈsɛrəˌlɔŋ/, /ˈsɛrəˌlɑŋ/, South African English /ˈserəlɒŋ/ The language of the Rolong of southern Africa, a variety of Setswana belonging to the Southern Sotho–Tswana group of narrow Bantu languages. Cf. Rolong n. 2.
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1894 W. Crisp tr. Testamente e Ncha (title page) Secoana language. Serolong dialect.
1905 G. W. Stow Native Races S. Afr. xxi. 407 The Bachoana proper, including the Batlapin, Barolong, etc., speaking the Sechoana and Serolong.
1919 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 18 131 These are nearly all the Suto songs... I will pass on, therefore, to the allied Serolong.
1928 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 4 898 The group is divided into two branches: Sechuana (with the dialects of Serolong, Setlaping, and Sekhatla) [etc.].
1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 437/2 SeRolong, or the Tswana Rolong language, is spoken in south-western Transvaal and northern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa, and in adjacent Botswana.
1992 C. Murray Black Mountain p. xii Pitso (public assembly), a word common to Sesotho and Serolong, was also written pico in Serolong.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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