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Ndebele
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Nde·be·le  (nd-bl)
n. pl. Ndebele or Nde·be·les In both senses also called Matabele.
1. A member of a Zulu people of southwest Zimbabwe.
2. The Nguni language of the Ndebele.
[Zulu -Ndebele, from Sotho Letêbêlê, a Nguni.]
Ndebele [ənˈdɛbɛle]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl Ndebele a member of a Negroid people of Zimbabwe See also Matabele
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu grouping of the Niger-Congo family
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Noun1.Ndebele - a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu
Matabele
Nguni - a group of southern Bantu languages
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