Shangaann.
/ʃaŋˈɡɑːn/ (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 attributive or as adj.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages > Tsonga
Ronga1897
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Shangaan1968
1887 J. W. Matthews Incwadi Yami 183 The native labour of the diamond fields..includes nearly twenty different tribes such as Zulus, Swazees, Basutos, Shangaans, [etc.].
1911 Encycl. 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.
1932 C. Fuller Louis Trigardt's Trek 39 Trigardt adopted a version from other than local natives, probably his Shangaan guides.
1948 Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–8 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 38/1 I have had in hand a most valuable document, prepared by a young Shangaan.
1968 C. Burke Elephant across Border iv. 118 An elderly man..got out, speaking quietly in Shangaan to an African.
1968 C. Burke Elephant across Border iv. 128 They suddenly saw Murray and his Shangaan tracker.
1973 Standard Encycl. Southern 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.
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