Matabele

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Ma·ta·be·le (mä

-b

, -tä-)

n. pl. Matabele or Mat·a·be·les

See Ndebele.

Matabele [ˌmætəˈbiːlɪ -ˈbɛlɪ]

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -les, -le a member of a formerly warlike people of southern Africa, now living in Zimbabwe: driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in 1837 Now known as Ndebele

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family

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Matabele - a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu

Ndebele

Nguni - a group of southern Bantu languages

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