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Herero|hɛˈrɛərəʊ|
One of a Negroid people in South-West Africa, also called Cattle Damara; also their Bantu language, called Otshi-Herero by the Hereros themselves.
1862W. H. I. Bleek Comp. Gram. S. Afr. Langs. i. 8 The language of Benguela..is quite distinct..from the Herero species. Ibid. ii. 22 Kongo bhobha (to speak, talk) is Hereró pópa (to warn, persuade). 1868F. W. Kolbe (title) A brief statement of the discovery of the laws of the vowels in Herero. 1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 731/2 Hereroland..so called from the native race known to the Namaqua as Herero and to the Cape colonists as Damara. 1904Westm. Gaz. 30 Jan. 2/2 The Kaffirs are joining the Hereros in attacking the Germans. 1952L. G. Green Lords of Last Frontier (1953) ii. 18 Midway in the sixteenth century those forceful Bantu, the Hereros, reached the end of a long migration, and settled in the cattle country. Ibid. xv. 148 Hereros are tall people, especially the men... Features are almost European, with well-shaped noses, high foreheads and oval faces. 1961L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. iii. 64 The black man, the Herero, the Bastaards, had kraals and lands of their own. 1972Cape Times 10 Mar. 1/1 Mr. John Garvey Muundjua, a Herero who is the South West Africa National Union's ‘Secretary for External Affairs’. 1973Times 8 Mar. 6/2 Herero tribal leaders have rejected an invitation from the Government to appoint representatives to sit on the advisory council. |