Tswana (redirected from Tshwana)

Tswa·na  (tswän, 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.

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Tswana [ˈtswɑːnə]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -na, -nas a member of a mixed Negroid and Bushman people of the Sotho group of southern Africa, living chiefly in Botswana

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

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Noun	1.	Tswana - a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa Batswana, Bechuana Botswana, Republic of Botswana - a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s Republic 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 Botswana Sechuana, Setswana Sotho - any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho