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Tswana

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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.
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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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 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 BotswanaTswana - 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
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In attempting in this essay a reading of a number of diverse examples of such a binaric mode of speaking reality into being, I will also draw briefly on one aspect of a habit of speaking evident in the Southern African Tswana conceptualization of human and "humane" action--though patently in no way "early-modern," and itself arguably a version of what we understand to be deconstruction.
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