tswana
IPA: tswˈɑnʌ
Root Word: Tswana
noun
- A Bantu people living in Botswana and South Africa.
- The Bantu language of these people; Setswana.
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Examples of "tswana" in Sentences
- Tswana has the following consonant inventory.
- I changed Tswana to Tawana in one place in the text.
- Tswana is an indigenous beef cattle breed of Botswana.
- An outbreak of contagious ecthyma in Tswana goats and sheep in Botswana.
- In the area surrounding Fochville are a number of Sotho or Tswana ruins.
- I'm editing the Sotho Tswana page, and will propose the merger there too.
- Resistance to pressures to adopt Tswana language and culture is led by men.
- In Namibia and Zimbabwe the Tswana do not constitute any significant polity.
- The area was set up as the only homeland for Tswana speaking people in 1961.
- The Tswana ethnic group constitute the majority of the population of Botswana.
- Even before she had taken it for repair at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, she had been aware of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, as a rather quiet man who lived by himself in a house near the old B.tswana Defence Force Club.
- Watched by the maid, who sourly followed their progress until they were out of sight near the old B.tswana Defence Force Club, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni and the two children bumped their way into town in the old truck.
- It could not be an easy job being President of B.tswana, and if Mr J.L.B. Matekoni had a choice between living in State House or being the proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, he was in no doubt about which one of these options he would choose.
- She must have been planning for months to place the orphans with him, and of course she must have realised that they would end up living in Mma Ramotswe's house in Zebra Drive rather than in Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni's house near the old B.tswana Defence Club.