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Xhosa
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Xho·sa also Xo·sa  (ksä, -z)
n. pl. Xhosa or Xho·sas also Xosa or Xo·sas
1. A member of a Bantu people inhabiting the eastern part of Cape Province, South Africa.
2. The Nguni language of this people, closely related to Zulu.
Xhosa [ˈkɔːsə]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -sa, -sas a member of a cattle-rearing Negroid people of southern Africa, living chiefly in South Africa
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family: closely related to Swazi and Zulu and characterized by several clicks in its sound system
Xhosan  adj
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Noun1.Xhosa - a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa
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)
African - a native or inhabitant of Africa
2.Xhosa - a community of Negroid people in southern South Africa
3.Xhosa - a Bantu language closely related to Zulu
Nguni - a group of southern Bantu languages
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Frontier wars of dispossession against the Khoisan people and later the Xhosas have left a deep cleavage in South African politics.
Finally it's Zuma, but what lies ahead? by Commey, Pusch / New African
Unlike the peaceable Westernized Xhosas Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, and unlike most of the ANC leadership so far, Zuma is a Zulu--a member of the warlike nation that humbled the British Empire at the epic battle of Isandlwana and that still remembers its ferocious past with pride.
The rainbow over: post-Apartheid South Africa is not delivering the ... by Hitchens, Peter / The American Conservative
Peires, the South African academic who undertook the first book-length study of the Cattle-Killing, has attempted to answer why the Xhosas in the late nineteenth century were prepared to listen to a prophetess: The Cattle-Killing cannot be divorced from the colonial situation which was imposed on the Xhosa in 1847 by Sir Harry Smith.
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