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Rolong, n. and a.
Brit. |ˈrɒlɒŋ|, U.S. |ˈrɔˌlɔŋ|, |ˈrɑˌlɑŋ|, S. Afr. |ˈrɔlɔŋ|, |ˈrɒlɒŋ|
Plural unchanged, -s
Forms: [See also Barolong adj. and n., Morolong n. and adj.]
[‹ Southern Sotho and Setswana -rolong, stem of Morolong Morolong n. and adj., Barolong Barolong adj. and n., and Serolong Serolong n. ‹ tholo antelope, kudu, the totem of the Rolong people (with initial sound mutation on addition of class prefixes) + -ng, locative suffix. Compare Southern Sotho and Setswana rolong (adjective) in the Rolong country.]
A. n.
1. A Southern Sotho language of the Tswana group, spoken by a people living mainly in the North West Province of South Africa and in Botswana.; = Serolong n.
1924Official Year Bk. Union of Basutoland, Bechuanaland & Swaziland No. 7 883 The most important Bantu languages indigenous to the Union are..the Chwana-Suto group..comprising the Chwana dialects of Mangwato, Tlaping, Rolong and others. 1938E. M. North Bk. Thousand Tongues 99 (heading) Chuana: Rolong dialect. 1977C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 70 Rolong = Roloŋ, including Hurutshe = Hurutsi, [etc.]. 1996B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 173 Tswana..dialects: Tlahaping (Tlapi), Rolong, Kwena, Kgatla, Ngwatu.
2. A member of a southern African people of the Tswana group, living mainly in the North West Province of South Africa and in Botswana; a speaker of Rolong.
Also called Morolong (see Morolong n. and adj.) and Barolong (see Barolong adj. and n.).
1937N. J. van Warmelo in I. Schapera Bantu-speaking Tribes S. Afr. iii. 60 The Tswana proper, living all along the fringe of the Kalahari, comprise the Thlaping; the Thlaro; the Rolong [etc.]. 1940P. R. Kirby Diary Dr. A. Smith II. 142 This native was a Rolong, who was probably taken to England by the Wesleyan missionaries. 1986P. Maylam Hist. Afr. People 113 Warden in 1851 assembled a combined force of troops, white farmers, Griqua, Kora and Rolong. 1996J. S. Olson Peoples of Afr. 496 The Rolongs are one of the primary subdivisions of the Tswana people of Botswana and South Africa.
B. adj. Of or relating to the Rolong or their language.
1949Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 13 207 The fact that Rolong f is bilabial should not affect the spelling. 1967Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 8 124 He was stopped by reports from Rolong refugees from various places who had been driven off by the raiding bands. 1980W. F. Lye & C. Murray Transformations on Highveld 90 All Barolong acknowledge their descent from a common ancestor Morolong... But there has been no united Rolong political community since the latter half of the eighteenth century. 1993Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 19 278 It also offers a possible link between the emergence of enlarged states in northern Zululand and the eighteenth century emergence of the Rolong paramountcy on the highveld. |