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Pondo|ˈpɒndəʊ|
[Nguni.]
a. A member of a Xhosa-speaking Nguni people in the eastern part of the Cape Province in South Africa. Cf. Amapondo.
b. The language spoken by the Pondos, a dialect of Xhosa. Also attrib.
[1835A. Steedman Wanderings Interior S. Afr. (1966) I. p. iv, The third division are the Amapondo tribes,..whose territories extend from the Bashee to the River Umsikalia. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 42/2 The Amapondo country of Kaffraria. 1884K. Johnston Africa (ed. 3) xxiv. 399 The remaining portions of Kafraria, including..that of the Amapondo extending across the St. John's River between the Umtata and the Umtamfuna, the boundary river of Natal.] 1919H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. iii. 298 The [Kafir] dialects include Feñgu, Baǀa and Pondω words. Ibid. v. 797 The divergent dialects of ˀōsa, such as Isi-pondω, Isi-baǀa, Feñgu, &c. 1950Cape Argus 18 Mar. (Mag. Section) 7/7 The area from Umtata down to the sea, and northwards to the borders of Natal, belongs to the Pondos—a tribe that would have been exterminated long ago by raiding bands of Zulus if the British Government had not intervened. 1973Times 19 Feb. 12/1 The hillsides are dotted with clusters of neat..round huts.., the homes of the local Africans who are a mixture of Zulu and Pondo tribes. 1979A. McCoy Insurrectionist vi. 56 The grinning one is a Pondo. There is bad blood already between the Swazi and the Pondo. |