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Tswana

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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.
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Noun1.Tswana - a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South AfricaTswana - 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 BotswanaTswana - 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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τσουάνα

Tswana

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Tswana

 

(also Chuana, Western Sotho), a language of the Sotho group of the southeastern Bantu languages. According to a 1970 estimate, Tswana is spoken in Lesotho, as well as in the western Transvaal and in northern Cape Province in the Republic of South Africa, by more than 1 million people.

The system of 9 vowels in Tswana exhibits the opposition open-closed in the phonemes [I], [e], [o], and [u]. Consonants include voiced and voiceless alveolar fricatives and affricates. Clicks, which occur only in ideophones, form a peripheral phonetic subsystem. Nasalization, palatalization, and alveolarization of consonants occur at morpheme boundaries.

Nouns are arranged in 18 categories, or noun classes, that form a system of concordances; there are two special classes made up of proper names, kinship terms, and totemic animals, and locative classes, which are weakly expressed in the other languages of the Sotho group. Classes are marked by monosyllabic prefixes. Verbs are conjugated by means of affixes; the diminutive aspect is formed by full reduplication of the verbal root.

The lexicon of Tswana abounds in ideophones. Sentences observe the following pattern: subject-predicate-object.

REFERENCES

Crisp, W. Notes Towards a Secoana Grammar, 3rd ed. London, 1900.
Cole, D. T. An Introduction to Tswana Grammar. London-New York, 1955.
Brown, J. T. Secwana Dictionary. London, 1954.

N. V. OKHOTINA

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Tswana

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Related to Tswana: Setswana, Tswana language
  • noun

Synonyms for Tswana

noun a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa

Synonyms

  • Batswana
  • Bechuana

Related Words

  • Botswana
  • Republic of Botswana
  • Republic of South Africa
  • South Africa
  • Bantu

noun the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana

Synonyms

  • Sechuana
  • Setswana

Related Words

  • Sotho
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