Tswana

Tswa·na

T0397900 (tswä′nə, swä′-)n. pl. Tswana or Tswa·nas 1. A member of a Bantu people inhabiting Botswana and western South Africa. Also called Batswana, Bechuana.2. The Sotho language of the Tswana. Also called Setswana.

Tswana

(ˈtswɑːnə) npl -na or -nas1. (Peoples) a member of a mixed Negroid and Bushman people of the Sotho group of southern Africa, living chiefly in Botswana2. (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family: the principal language of Botswana

Tswa•na

(ˈtswɑ nə, ˈswɑ-)

n., pl. -nas, (esp. collectively) -na. 1. a member of an African people, a division of the Sotho, living mainly in Botswana and in the Transvaal and Cape Province in South Africa. 2. the Bantu language of the Tswana.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Tswana - a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South AfricaBatswana, BechuanaBotswana, Republic of Botswana - a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960sRepublic of South Africa, South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)Bantu - a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
	2.	Tswana - the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in BotswanaSechuana, SetswanaSotho - any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho

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