Zanden.
/ˈzandiː/ 1. (A member of) a people of mixed ethnic origin inhabiting central Africa.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun]
Numidian?a1425
Nubianc1450
Massylian1606
catadupes1607
Mauritanian1607
Marmarican1627
Niam-Niam1861
Watusi1863
Zande1873
Twa1878
Tutsi1929
Cyrenaican1942
Ubangi1953
Chadian1960
Saharan1970
Sahrawi1976
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [adjective]
Nubian1600
Somali1809
Meroitic1852
Zande1873
Somalian1884
Ubangi1915
Twa1951
Chadian1960
Watusi1960
1873 E. E. Frewer tr. G. Schweinfurth Heart of Afr. II. xiii. 6 As marks of nationality, all the ‘Zandey’ score themselves with three or four tattooed squares.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 474/1 The A-Zandey are to be regarded as rather of mixed Negroid than of pure Negro stock.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 230/1 The Zandehs proper..are now found to stretch, with interruptions, from the White Nile above the Sobat confluence to the Shari affluent of Lake Chad.
1918 R. G. C. Brock in Sudan Notes & Records Oct. 249 The true Azande live in the Belgian Congo.
1918 R. G. C. Brock in Sudan Notes & Records Oct. 253 The Azande are divided into different clans and most of these believe that they return to the earth in the form of some animal.
1955 M. Gluckman Custom & Confl. Afr. iv. 85 If a Zande murdered a fellow-tribesman with his spear he was tried in court by his chief.
2. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective]
Negrish1735
Temne1791
Nupe1841
Efik1849
Kikongo1885
Dagbani1917
Ngbandi1931
Zande1938
Voltaic1949
Mandinka1953
Ngbaka1955
Edo1957
Loma1957
Mandekan1968
Manding1969
Malinke1970
Mende1972
the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Voltaic > Ubangian
Ngbandi1931
Zande1938
Ngbaka1939
1938 Bk. Thousand Tongues (Amer. Bible Soc.) 353/2 Zande... Spoken by perhaps 300,000 people in northeastern Belgian Congo, eastern French Equatorial Africa and southern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
Compounds
General attributive as adj.
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1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 474/1 The Zandey language..appears to be everywhere spoken with considerable uniformity.
1891 A. H. Keane tr. W. Junker Trav. in Afr. II. iv. 102 The hair, arranged Zandeh-fashion, though somewhat carelessly, in tresses, projected under a tarbush round the occiput.
1918 R. G. C. Brock in Sudan Notes & Records Oct. 249 The Zande tribe.
1918 R. G. C. Brock in Sudan Notes & Records Oct. 257 The ordinary Zande dance is a very dull affair.
1955 M. Gluckman Custom & Confl. Afr. iv. 90 I find it difficult to see exactly how the Azande witchcraft charges work.
1978 J. Skorupski in Hookway & Pettit Action & Interpretation 85 Winch's account of the meaning of Zande magic is ultimately not at all unlike that which some symbolist writers might give.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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